Chapter 338: Fresh Water Supply
Before they knew it, several people were talking while waiting for the arrival of the desalination ship.
Woowoo......
A whistle caught the attention of everyone at the docks.
"It's coming!" Zhu Jianguo looked at the desalination ship in the distance and said.
Raff and Lange were also eagerly awaited.
The desalination ship was converted from a 10-ton container ship, and Dongyin Water Group has built a total of 6 such desalination ships.
A barge quickly approached the desalination ship, after all, the sea near this pier was not a channel before, although the depth of the water allowed 200,000-ton ships to pass through.
But off the east coast of Queensland is the famous Great Barrier Reef, which is very dense with coral reefs.
In line with the caution of sailing a 10,000-year-old ship, the Oceania Water Company still sent a barge to guide the desalination ship to the shore.
Woowoo......
As the whistle ended, the desalination ship slowly docked next to the temporary pier under the guidance of the barge.
The desalination vessel quickly dropped anchor and shut down the steam turbine, while the staff of the temporary dock quickly cooperated with the desalination vessel to dock.
"Pipeline construction department, get the pipeline ready as soon as possible."
The staff of the dock hurriedly connected some water pipelines prepared in advance to the desalination ship.
This water pipeline connects the desalination vessel to a temporary reservoir near the pier.
"Connect the power supply device."
"Roger."
Raff looked at the fast-moving Dongyin staff and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Your efficiency is too fast, no wonder you can accomplish so many achievements." ”
"Time is money, and if you swallow slowly, you don't need to make money." Zhu Jianguo spread his hands and replied.
Since the power supply equipment was already prepared in advance, after more than an hour, everything was ready.
"Mr. Raff and Mr. Lange, let's go up and see if the water supply is in order!" Zhu Jianguo suggested.
"Okay."
A group of people got on the desalination ship.
"Mr. Zhu, it can already produce fresh water." The staff member said to a group of people.
"Then let's start trial production!" Zhu Jianguo commanded.
"Yes."
The staff pressed the switch, and the desalination equipment in the desalination ship quickly operated, and to the side of the sea outside, three pumps quickly pumped the seawater into the inside of the vessel.
Soon the boat was on the side of the wharf, and the sound of some dripping water from the water pipeline gradually became louder and louder, as if it was like a surging river.
At the same time, there were several large trucks carrying earthworks on the docks, but now they were not here to carry earthworks, but to carry filtered sodium chloride and the like.
"Mr. Lange, you'd better find a way to deal with these filtered sea salts and the like, otherwise it may cause environmental pollution." Zhu Jianguo reminded.
"Mr. Zhu, I don't know how you deal with these things in China?" Lange asked curiously.
"Some of them are sold to chemical plants as raw materials, and some of them are used as raw materials for foamed cement." Zhu Jianguo replied.
"Foam cement is made from these filtered sea salts?" Lange & Söhne was surprised.
These days, they have seen the power of foam cement, but they didn't expect this kind of thing to be made of sea salt.
"It's just one of the raw materials." Zhu Jianguo is not afraid that they will know, even if they say all the raw materials, they can't imitate it, and the process involved in foam cement is completely different from ordinary cement.
"I see."
Lange didn't ask any more, after all, he was still very self-aware, even if he knew the raw materials, the recipe and process were definitely the top secret of the Galaxy Foundation, and he didn't want to be bored.
"Let's go to the temporary reservoir and have a look!" Zhu Jianguo proposed.
"Yes."
“OK。”
"Go! Haifeng and I discussed the wind power station. Fang Ping had no interest in looking at the reservoir, he was about to vomit when he saw it in China.
"Then you discuss, let's go!"
After speaking, Zhu Jianguo took Raff and Lange and others to the temporary reservoir.
Three electric pickup trucks produced by The Paper were paved along the foam cement to the improvised highway and directly to the temporary reservoir of about 6 kilometers.
Although it is a temporary reservoir, with the addition of foam cement, this temporary reservoir converted from a valley is very large, and can hold 16 million cubic meters of fresh water.
The pickup truck of Zhu Jianguo and others drove to the dam of the reservoir, and Raff and Lange hurriedly got out of the car.
At this time, the water pipeline connected by the desalination ship is continuously filling the reservoir with water, and Raf is excited to see the rapidly rising water level.
"Hit a bucket of water and take a look." Zhu Jianguo commanded.
The staff on the side hurriedly went down and brought up a big bucket of water.
Raff and Lange kept taking pictures with their mobile phones, not knowing that they thought they were reporters, Raff wrote a tweet with pictures and texts, and then clicked upload.
After the bucket of water had settled for a while, the three of them took out disposable cups and sung.
"Sure enough, it's fresh water." Lange said happily.
"Excellent! We want more fresh water. Raff followed.
What Raff didn't know was that the tweet he had just posted immediately attracted huge attention in Turkey and Australia.
[Fresh water is coming!] Let's say goodbye to drought forever! …… ]
"Oh buy karma! Really?" - Roast kangaroo
"@水利部部长拉夫?? Lauren, is there a supply of fresh water near Lake Yamayama in Queensland?" - Barton without water
"Hopefully it's true." - Hops
"The technology of the Eastern Tang people can't be trusted." - Canberra user
"@堪培拉用户, don't use your ignorance to represent all of us." - Haidt?? Anthony
"It should be true, the northern region of the Eastern Tang Dynasty produces hundreds of billions of cubic meters of fresh water through seawater desalination every year, and there is no problem with their technology." - Robert
"Where is the fresh water supply?" - Cowboys are very busy
"@牛仔非常忙, there are three temporary desalination plants in Queensland, which should provide an initial relief from Queensland's water use." - Big lobster
Although the fresh water has not yet reached the farms of the Great Artesian Basin, the news has raised hope among all local farmers.
After all, praying to God is unreliable, and the fresh water from the desalination plant is indeed real, and no matter how small the hope is, it is hope, better than complete despair.
The watershed pipeline is running at full capacity, supplying fresh water to the west side of the watershed at full capacity, and three desalination vessels can produce 15 million cubic meters of fresh water a day.
Due to the windward slope on the east side of the Great Dividing Range, their reservoir is still able to sustain daily life despite the drought conditions due to this year's climate impact.
Therefore, all the fresh water produced by desalination ships is supplied to the inland area on the west side of the Great Dividing Range.
The local governments of Turkey and Macao have also come out to reassure the people, asking them to be patient for the time being, and when the construction of the desalination plant is completed, there will be no need to restrict water.
The Tuao media, who have always liked Heidongtang, also had to consider the impact and wrote some relatively nice news reports, although this made them very disgusting, but both the official and the people supported this matter, and they could only pinch their noses and admit it.
In order to ensure the safety of water in the future, the Turkish and Australian officials also secretly warned some media, lest these guys come out to do things, and if they want to do things, they will wait until later.