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2023. May VOL. 662
- 2023. May VOL. 662
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2023. May VOL. 662
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On April 19, K-water and the City of Daegu signed an MOU for cooperation in river management. The MOU is intended to facilitate cooperation between the two sides in river management including the integrated river project of Geumhogang River and contribute to the growth and development of both parties by maintaining a partnership. The MOU includes △creating first-class urban rivers by implementing the integrated river project of Geumhogang River, △managing rivers effectively and making policies·plans on river management, and △providing technical support for design·implementation·maintenance of river projects. Under the MOU, the two sides plan to work together for technical cooperation in all aspects of creating first-class urban rivers including the integrated river project of Geumhogang River, and designing·implementing·maintaining rivers
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On April 21, K-water held a regular general meeting of the ‘Water Industry Investors Council’ and the IR session to help promote investments in corporations with high growth potential at Hotel President Seoul. The event was attended by officials from 20 institutions from the public and private sectors and municipalities. The event consisted of two parts as follows. Part I included the general meeting and special lectures on ‘understanding ultra pure water for semiconductors and the future of ultra pure water industry’. Participants discussed ways to train water industry investment specialists and innovative corporations in the area of ultra pure water that has recently been spotlighted as a blue ocean market. Part II features the IR session jointly held by five water industry startups with innovative technology including BTE that received the CES innovation award at the ‘CES 2023’, Clover Studio, the Spatial Party, Membrare and Sunny Wave Tech.
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On March 29, K-water’s Chungnam Regional Cooperation Council successfully completed the local waterworks modernization project they launched jointly in 2018 by surpassing the initial target water flow rate. Under the project, approximately 42.2km of old water supply pipes in Gwangcheon-eup and Gyeulseong-myeon in Hongseong County have been repaired or replaced with new ones, resulting in a water flow rate of 89.1%, which exceeds the 85% target rate. The project was finally approved as a ‘pass’ grade at the final performance evaluation of the Performance Evaluation Committee of Korea Water and Wastewater Works Association in March. Hongseong County has improved its water flow rate to 89.1% in just five years which stood at only 56.6% in 2018 when the project started, reducing water leakage by 690,000㎥ and thus saving KRW 1.4 billion. It is the first of the local waterworks modernization projects launched in 2018, and K-water plans to implement the integrated water flow rate management for four counties in Chungcheongnam-do Province.
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K-water’s River Basin Support Office has launched the real-time river basin water data system (water-Data) on April 3. The system entails cloud-based data infrastructure that offers stability and scalability in big data management. The system integrates real-time water management data from the entire water supply process of metropolitan cities-municipalities, while also serving as a web service platform for water service providers to share water data. The web service is expected to allow the system to act as a control tower for crisis response by connecting metropolitan cities-municipalities. The real-time river basin water data system(water-Data) is available for reference on Water Now, the national water information system (www.waternow.go.kr/waterdata).
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Cheonan and Asan water purification plants of Geumgang River Basin headquarters have now been declared carbon-neutral facilities. On April 5, the plants installed the largest onshore solar panels and started commercial power generation. K-water The two plants have been working on the onshore solar panel project since 2021. The panels installed on areas of idle land at the two plants are capable of generating a total of 2.3MW and 2.1MW, respectively, adding 5,412MWh per year in power supply. The two plants will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2,848t by producing clean energy, and they are expected to achieve carbon neutrality.
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On April 11, the Ministry of Environment and K-water held ‘the ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of a high-efficiency non-point pollutant source reduction facility’ for Daecheong Lake in Munui-myeon, Cheongju City, Chungcheongbuk-do. In attendance at the ceremony were Yeon-ki Rhyu, Water Environment Policy Advisor of the Ministry of Environment, Byeong-hoon Jang, chief of Geumgang River Basin headquarters, officials from the Cheongju City, Daecheongho Lake Preservation Campaign headquarters and other organizations, along with local residents. The facility is designed to eliminate or reduce water pollutants that are discharged together with rainwater from unspecified locations including cities, roads and farmland when it rains. The facility to be installed in the upper region of Daechongho Lake adopts a sand-based filtering method to reduce total phosphorous (T-P) that causes algae blooms by 60 ~ 80%. The facility will be set up at two locations(Micheon Stream, Peumgok Stream) in the upper region of the lake in April 2024.
