Water meter is used to make realistic shots

The installation of water meters to serve clean water projects for people is not new, but the water meter for the scene is certainly new but not new. Especially in the project to expand rural clean water in the district of Hoc Mon, many water meters are installed only for the scene for many reasons.

Post date: 31-10-2018

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Saigon Water Supply Company said that by the end of March 2017, there were 113,489 water meters with zero bills, meaning that the people did not use water supplied by this unit. However, the new areas have been invested in recent years, people are still not interested in clean water but want to use well water.

Reason for not using

According to surveys in Hoc Mon, Binh Chanh and District 12, people still use two types of parallel water, which are newly installed with well water used for decades. At Trung My Tay Ward (District 12), people in Block 7 said fresh water was installed about 2 years ago but strange smell should not be used. Le Thu Tam, who lives in Central America 13, said his family still uses well water because of clear water, not infected with alum. When the tap water is available, the family uses a chlorine-free (chlorine) solution, which limits their use. "Sometimes, the water is cloudy for no reason why the clothes stained stained. Besides, the water pressure is weak so only for eating, but the bath on the upstairs, the water can not rise," - Ms. Tam to speak. Therefore, the water used by Tam's family is still wells drilled into the tank. Not only the home of Tam, hundreds of people in this area have a water tank on the roof to use gradually.

The people of My Hue hamlet, Trung Chanh commune, Hoc Mon district still do not have the habit of using clean water. Mr. Nguyen Van On (dwelling on My Hue street 6) pointed to the pipe along the road and said that most of the people had their water meters installed, except for those under construction. Mr. On is a motorbike washing and direct drilling ground water used to reduce costs. For clean water, the family is not attached to the clock so every day he still carry water from the house next door to use. According to the record, most people said that the water pipe was installed before the clean water wall clock that is close to the door so not connected to each other. To renovate the pipeline costs more so the households are still cautious.

Another reason why people are not so keen on clean water is their habit of using water for free for decades. In the areas we surveyed, people said well water was still clean and should continue to be used.

Too wasteful

According to the study, the highest rate of people without clean water is Hoc Mon district with 26% (16,324 meters); followed by District 12 with 18% (18,042), Go Vap with 12% (12,700), and Binh Tan with 11% (13,058). In particular, there are communes - wards with the rate of people not using fresh water up to 1/4 as Trung Chanh, Xuan Thoi Dong (Hoc Mon district); Tan Thoi Hiep, Tan Chanh Hiep, Trung My Tay, Hiep Thanh (District 12); Da Phuoc, Vinh Loc A, Vinh Loc B (Binh Chanh district) ... It is worth mentioning, these localities have been invested and installed tens of thousands of water meters in 2016 according to Resolution 35/2015 of the People's Council TP on achieving 100% of clean water supply for people. In order to implement clean water supply measures, the water supply companies spend a lot of money, even those not included in the development plan.

Nguyen Minh Nhut, deputy head of the HCM City People's Committee, said more than 110,000 "unused" water meters were wasted. About why people do not use water, Mr. Nhut said due to the habit of using well water for many years. People do not spend much money and think clean water from a well because they "look in" so they do not want to use tap water.

"Do not use tap water, when the tap is open to the state of turbid water, strange smell should strengthen the mentality of tap water is not clean, unsafe," - he commented Nhut. According to him, in the third quarter 2017, the Urban Department will re-examine the situation of people using clean water as well as the network development of the water supply units.

"The people do not use clean water and still grow the network is paradoxical?" - we question. Nhu explained that people want to use clean water and have to supply water to the place and propaganda. However, if people want to increase the rate of people using clean water, local authorities have to strengthen their propaganda as well as change the way of propaganda.

"It is not possible to bring a hundred people to the hall and talk about knowledge or give out leaflets that people will use clean water. The use of well water, well water will cost the electricity and not safe to see the water in the clear and sweet, "- he said Nhut.

As a result of the monitoring of the quality of well water sources, the self-extractive population of the Preventive Medicine Center, most of the wells did not meet the water standards for domestic use (QCVN 02: 2009 / BYT of the Ministry of Health) at the pH, iron and about 50% of water samples do not meet ammonia criteria.

Weak by changing pump technology

For the past 10 days, residents of Road 7, Quarter 3, Linh Trung Ward, Thu Duc District, HCMC reflected the pressure of water can not push up to the 3rd floor as before. When Thu Duc Water Supply JSC reported that the pressure was weak, the water could not reach the reservoir and promised to increase the pressure of the pump. However, the water pressure increased only a few hours and then drip drops that people do not have water use.

A representative of Thu Duc Water Supply JSC said that the cause of the water pressure situation was lower than before because Thu Duc Water Factory changed the technology of variable level. On the morning of May 26th, after receiving information from the Laborers Newspaper, the inspectors in the middle of the 7th street, the pressure at 10 o'clock was 2.2 kg (average pressure of 1 kg equals 10 m, in theory water can be up to 20 m). In addition to line 7, the company also received weak water reflection on Hoang Dieu 2, Vo Van Ngan Street and other locations. However, when employees check the normal water pressure, unlike the news of the water outage of the people.

Representatives of Thu Duc Water Supply JSC explained that it is possible that people use water from the self-pumped water network because of strong upstream pressure. When designing a 3-4 storey building that is designated as a high rise building, the homeowner should study the urban water supply network and use the "tank under the tank" solution, ie use a pump to push water into the tank from the tank. contained below.

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