Chapter 182: Cheap Freshwater Resources
After Zhou Yu visited the desalination plant, he came to the hall of Huaxia Water Supply Company again.
Chen Qiming, chairman of the Huaxia Water Supply Corporation, stood on the high platform in front.
At 9:30 a.m. on August 18, two staff members pulled a red silk on the high platform.
Chen Qiming, chairman of Huaxia Water Supply Corporation, and relevant leaders of the Jintian Municipal Government came to the stage to jointly cut off this red chip.
Chen Qiming said excitedly: "Under the attention of the Government Council, the seawater desalination project of our Huaxia Water Supply Corporation was officially launched today."
He pressed his hand on a transparent glass pillar on the high platform, which glowed with dazzling brilliance.
At the same time, this directive was issued to the desalination plants under the Huaxia Water Supply Corporation, and all desalination plants began to be connected to the grid for water supply.
Holograms are used on the high platform to show the scene of the seawater desalination plant connected to the grid for water supply.
The desalination plant extracts huge amounts of seawater for treatment, and the desalination rate is very fast, and in a short time the clear freshwater resources are transported out of the pipes of the desalination plant.
This fresh water flows down the pipeline to major cities in China.
The size of the desalination plant is detailed in the hologram.
All coastal provinces in China have a desalination plant that processes 13 million tonnes of fresh water per day.
Around the megacities, such as Yanjing, Shanghai, and Pengcheng, there are desalination plants dedicated to supplying water resources to ensure that these large cities have water supply.
Chen Qiming said happily when he saw the official start of water supply: "We have built a total of 12 desalination plants with a daily processing capacity of 150 million tons of fresh water, and the production capacity of these desalination plants can meet the fresh water consumption of China in one day."
We no longer need to over-extract groundwater resources or over-extract water from rivers to better serve ecosystems. ”
Immediately after Chen Qiming finished speaking, reporters kept asking questions.
The Global Times reporter asked: "Chairman Chen, can the fresh water produced by the desalination plant be transported to inland provinces?"
Chen Qiming said with a smile: "There is no problem at all, we are building a desalination plant and constantly integrating the original network of the city water supply company."
We have invested 10 billion yuan to renovate the city's original water supply network, replacing old metal water supply pipelines with environmentally friendly plastic and ceramic water supply pipelines.
At the same time, the water supply network between cities and provinces is connected through the backbone network with cities as nodes.
Our fresh water can be delivered directly to the border provinces from the Jintian desalination plant via water supply pipelines.
After the national water supply network is connected, we can also use big data to deploy freshwater resources in a timely manner. ”
The CCTV reporter asked: "Hello Chairman Chen, I know about the water supply companies in major cities, and some have been changed to reclaimed water companies, what is the reason for this?"
Chen Qiming replied with a smile: "Our desalination plant is enough to meet people's daily water supply, and we are keeping a water supply company that draws water from the river to cope with possible accidents."
The sewage treatment equipment we introduced from Xinghuo Technology can convert production and domestic sewage into pure water that can be fully consumed.
However, after the conversion, we only use the reclaimed water for industrial water and green park water.
After all, if the water converted into domestic sewage is directly drunk by people, it will cause psychological discomfort to the people. ”
A reporter from the People's Daily asked: "May I ask Chairman Chen, all urban water supply pipelines have been opened, how is its charging price a unified charge across the country, or is it charged according to different cities."
Chen Qiming immediately replied: "We, Huaxia Water Supply Corporation, in order to allow the people to use reliable and cheap water resources.
Our company reported to the National Development and Reform Commission that the price of residential water has been re-established, which will be officially implemented on September 1.
The national water resources are priced at a unified price, and a tiered selling price is adopted.
Household water is less than 300 tons per year, and the price per ton of water is one yuan.
If the household water is more than 300 tons per year and less than 800 tons, the price per ton of water is 1.5 yuan.
Household water is more than 800 tons per year, and we will open up an industrial water pipeline for this family, which is no longer a normal family. ”
Reporters constantly interviewed Chen Qiming, and he answered their questions briefly and accurately.
The launching ceremony of the desalination project of Huaxia Water Supply Corporation ended quickly, Chen Qiming invited the guests to the ball, and Zhou Yu politely declined his invitation.
Zhou Yu and Chen Jin drove the car directly back to Yanjing, and they sped on the highway.
The seawater in the desalination plant is constantly converted into fresh water, which flows down the pipeline to all parts of the land of China, nourishing the country.
The seawater desalination project of Huaxia Water Supply Corporation has also been paid attention to by netizens on the Internet.
In a modern metropolis, you can survive a few days without electricity, but it is really difficult to lose water, and the storage and price of water affect everyone.
[Feng Xiaomu]: "No wonder the water supply company in our hometown was directly integrated by a state-owned enterprise, and all the water supply pipelines were opened.
Our village can finally use a water supply line with our neighboring villages.
In the past, the water in our village would be a little bitter, but the water in the neighboring village was very sweet.
Our hometown is a township and a water supply company, and the quality of these small water supply companies cannot be guaranteed at all.
When I was a child, I had a lot of bad smells in the tap water many times a year, and I later learned that the tap water intake was not far from the sewage outlet of a pharmaceutical factory. ”
[Yun Ai Mao]: "I'm really glad that tap water can be reduced to the price of one yuan a ton, or a breakthrough in science and technology can make our lives better."
In fact, the cost of tap water is not high, and it is because some water supply companies have raised the price that we have to pay so much for water.
Comparing the water that countries deliver to certain areas shows the true cost of coming from the water.
Industries such as tap water, power grids, and telecommunications networks, which are naturally monopolistic in nature, will not coordinate prices in accordance with market rules at all once market competition is liberalized.
Only in accordance with the rules of capitalism, regional monopoly operations will be carried out. ”
[Green Sky]: "People nowadays are really picky, and they can even make the water supply company divide the water into industrial water and drinking water.
These waters are purified through aqueous membranes, and all of their ingredients are identical.
There are also many animal carcasses in seawater, and there are many microorganisms such as bacteria, which may not be cleaner than domestic sewage.
This is a complete waste of current resources, and I am going to set up an organization to drink reclaimed water. ”
[Plant a tree in spring]: "The operation of the desalination plant can basically solve the problem of water shortage in China, which can better promote our harmony with nature."
Especially in North and Northwest China, water companies are frantically pumping groundwater resources. This environmentally damaging practice has directly caused some seasonal rivers in the northwest to stop flowing for long periods of time.
Lop Nur has changed from an oasis with lakes and fish, and lush aquatic plants to a desert when it was founded.
This is the result of human beings' infinite extraction of water from nature.
Now that reclaimed water is abundant, if combined with advanced technology, it is possible to plant a new world in the desert and turn the desert back into an oasis. ”