Changsha Water Quality: Remote Monitoring Management

From 2013 to 2015, Changsha will implement water meter reconstruction for 500,000 households in the city, striving to achieve “one household, one meter, household meter, and water supply enterprise terminal settlement”. Among them, 200,000 residents have been included in the renovation plan this year. What changes will occur to residents' water use after transformation?

Residents have no choice but to share the “more” water fee

Lotus Pond community, where the transformation of the household table is under way. Wu Sister is a building director of the Lotus Pond community. When she filed a water fee, she felt helpless: “Last time the meter was read, the difference in water consumption between the two tables was more than 1,000 tons. As a result, each household shared more than 105 yuan, and everyone complained.” In her eyes, the water fee is the highest. A difficult job.

“We have a total of more than 400 households in 13 residential buildings and are currently reconstructing their households.” Yu Liuying, director of the Lotus Pool Community, said that the water collection fee is a difficult task for the community before it is reformed. “Because it is an old community, there are problems such as leakage of water in the pipeline, and there will be data discrepancies for each copy of the meter. Residents have considerable opinions on this.” Yu Liuying said that in October 2013, the community was included in the household surface reconstruction project, which has puzzled everyone for many years. Has been resolved.

The city defaulted on water charges up to 500 million yuan

In recent years, as more and more conflicts of various types of water are used, the amount of water charges that are owed directly has been increasing. The city’s defaulting water fee has reached 500 million yuan, and the Changsha Water Group is overwhelmed.

In fact, the water fees charged by the Water Group are mainly used to increase the water-making process and improve the water quality, which is closely related to every citizen.

On April 24, 2013, the city government conducted a special study on this and started the urban residents' water meter conversion. "The greatest benefit of implementing household surface reconstruction is to ensure water quality safety." Li Qun said, "After the completion of the transformation, water quality will be remotely monitored by the water supply company and the secondary water supply facilities will be managed in strict accordance with national regulations to ensure water quality safety."

At the same time, the water supply company can directly settle accounts with users, avoiding the existence of measurement differences between the master list and the sub-meter, and the user's rotation of water charges. After the transformation is completed, all the water supply facilities outside the user's water meter are managed and managed by the water supply company.

“Next, we will install a smart water meter to achieve remote monitoring.” Li Qun said, water supply companies can remotely monitor whether the user's home water pressure is normal or water volume information.

Incorporate the renovation plan

Households do not understand that a large part of the transformation of households is due to cost considerations. Li Qun said that for residents who have been included in the annual household table transformation plan after April 24, 2013, the reform costs will be borne by the municipal, district finance and Changsha Water Group. That is, residents do not have to pay for free services provided by the government and enterprises.

"There are arrears of households to transform the user, need to cooperate with the water company to dispose of the arrears of water charges. For the huge amount of arrears caused by internal leakage and other objective reasons, the water supply enterprises will report to the municipal government to clarify the relevant disposal principles, each cell specific The arrears collection program is determined by the municipal households' reform headquarters according to relevant principles, and the streets, communities, user representatives, and water supply companies are jointly determined, said Li Qun.

Li Qun reminded that in the process of renovation, it will inevitably cause minor damage to the fittings of the user's indoor water meter or water pipe connection, which requires the user to recover.

Three-year plan to transform 500,000 households

At present, the number of users who need to transform their homes has reached 1 million. From 2013 to 2015, Changsha plans to implement the transformation of households to 500,000 households in the city. Among them, RMB 200 million was invested in 2013 to transform 100,000 households. In 2014 and 2015, 200,000 households will be reconstructed.

“Because the government has limited financial resources, the transformation is a gradual process.” Li Qun said that if it has been incorporated into the transformation plan and there is no reconstruction due to user reasons, in the future, if it is necessary to renovate, the user should apply to the water supply company himself and bear relevant cost.