Text, Video/Liang Yitao
As soon as the tap is turned on, the water flows out naturally. In life, many people have become accustomed to the "coming" of water. Behind this is the countless hard work made by successive guangzhou water supply people to make more citizens feel the convenience of "water coming from".
In Yuexiu Park, an important location on Guangzhou's traditional central axis, there is a tap water pressurization station that is "over 60 years old" and still serves the citizens of Guangzhou. On December 12, 2021, Yangcheng Evening News and Guangzhou Water Investment Guangzhou Water Supply Company jointly hosted the "Yuexiu Mountain Pressurization Station 'Exploration'" activity, inviting young reporters and club participants of the Yangcheng Evening News Student Journalist Club to walk into this pressurized station that has served Guangzhou citizens for many years.
At the event, guangzhou water supply staff showed the visitors the results of the unremitting efforts of successive generations of Guangzhou water suppliers to overcome difficulties and introduce tap water to thousands of households. At a time when the Guangdong region continues to be dry and rainy, and the water used in some parts of Guangzhou is expected to continue to be affected by drought and salt tide this winter and next spring, the staff took this opportunity to introduce the drought prevention and salt protection work in Guangzhou to the visiting children. This activity made the children living in Guangzhou, a national water-saving city, realize the importance of saving water.
"Water flows to a higher place" Yuexiu Mountain pressurization station to accompany the growth of Guangzhou
Enter Yuexiu Park from the East Gate, follow Dongxiu Lake Road all the way west, and when you reach the vicinity of the Guangzhou City Park Exhibition Hall, visitors will find a wall on the right hand side of the park road surrounded by a green belt, and a plaque with the inscription "Yuexiu Station 1957" façade. Here, this is the place where this event was held - Yuexiu Mountain Pressurization Station.
"Some tourists may be confused by today's quaint façade and think that this is a scenic spot, but some local citizens in Guangzhou know that this is a tap water pressurization station that accompanies everyone to grow up." Ou Xingqi, station manager of Yuexiu Mountain Pressurization Station, introduced the construction process and work process of the pressurization station to the visitors. It is reported that the terrain of Yuexiu Mountain and the surrounding areas is high, and the conventional water supply pressure is difficult to meet the water needs of residents, party and government organs, enterprises and institutions in the area. In 1957, construction of the Yuexiu Mountain Pressurization Station began and production began in 1958. After the water plant treatment of the tap water through the pipe network to the Yuexiu Mountain pressurization station, through the pump pressurization of the water to send the water to the high reservoir, and then through the gravity of the pipe network into thousands of households, in the comprehensive conditions are not as good as the current end of the 1950s, the contemporary Guangzhou water supply people have through their own wisdom, to promote the "water to the high place".
"With the continuous development of the city, the pressurized station is also constantly adjusting its work tasks to meet the needs of urban development." Ou Xingqi introduced that the spring breeze of reform and opening up has made the construction of water supply hardware facilities in Guangzhou have developed by leaps and bounds. In 1986, the DN1200 water pipeline was newly installed on Huanshi East Road, which made some water users located in the service scope of Yuexiu Mountain Pressurization Station enjoy the convenience of "three-dimensional" and "multi-source" water supply network, which gradually weakened the pressurization effect of Yuexiu Mountain Pressurization Station.
Entering the millennium, Guangzhou's water demand is still increasing, and the Yuexiu Mountain Pressurization Station, which has been "forgotten" for many years, has re-"stood on" the "front-line post" and restored the use of 6,000 cubic meters of reservoir function in 2014 according to the changes in the surrounding water supply demand. At present, Yuexiu Mountain Pressurization Station provides about 5,000 cubic meters of high-quality tap water for residents of Xiaobei Road, Yingyuan Road, Xiatang West Road, Huaguoshan and Yuexiu Park every day.
"At present, in Guangzhou, all walks of life continue to bloom with new vitality. We in the water supply industry also want to think about how to do practical things for the masses, and we cannot be limited to our own water supply plate. Ou Xingqi said that in 2019, Guangzhou sounded the special action rally number of Baiyun Mountain, Luhu Lake and Yuexiu Mountain to "return green to the people". Under the unified deployment of the CPC Guangzhou Municipal Committee and the Guangzhou Municipal People's Government, the Guangzhou Water Supply Company has upgraded the landscape of the Yuexiu Mountain Pressurization Station under the premise of ensuring that the normal and safe water supply is not affected, and the original simple stainless steel main entrance has been changed to a new Chinese style, the exterior of the physical wall is pasted with antique green bricks, the top is made of green glazed tiles, and the original barbed wire wall is changed to a permeable invisible green fence. Entering the gate of the Yuexiu Mountain Pressurization Station, there is the pump room under the mountain, which is soundproofed and almost no noise. Passing through the buildings below the mountain, the imitation wood paved mountain park road winds up the mountain. Coming to the top of the mountain, you can see a "green lawn" combined with "lawn + color leaf land + yellow granite Ting step", according to the staff, under the lawn is a closed reservoir. Create a green landscape on the upper level of the reservoir, which can be integrated with the Yuexiu Mountain View to form a natural and transparent green space and enhance the leisure comfort of citizens.
A journey, let the children understand the hard-won of tap water Guangzhou Water Investment Guangzhou Water Supply Company courtesy of the map
The "not easy" of the tap water production process from the source to the user
Following in the footsteps of the water company staff, the children visited the pump room, the reservoir and other places. The children turned their curious eyes to the pumps, wellheads, pipelines and other facilities in the station, and asked the staff in the station, what role do these facilities play in the water supply process? The staff answered the children's questions one by one. As a water supply production unit with a large height difference, the low pump room of Yuexiu Mountain Pressurization Station is connected to the high reservoir by an antique staircase, and the children climb the stairs during the visit to overlook the old town of Guangzhou.
"The staircase has 214 steps, which is not very high in theory, and it does not take long for people with flexible hands and feet to walk up. But for tap water, 'walking' from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain is a long 'road'. During the visit, Ou Xingqi introduced to the children how tap water can achieve "water flowing to a high place". The pumping group of the pressurized station pumps tap water from a low place to the reservoir at the top of the mountain, and it takes more than ten hours to fill the pool. After understanding the process of "water flowing to a high place", the children deeply realized the "not easy" of tap water flowing into thousands of households.
"The pressurization station is only a 'halfway station' in the tap water transmission link. From the source to thousands of households, tap water needs to go through an even longer 'road'. The staff of Guangzhou Water Supply Company introduced the whole production process of tap water to the children during the visit. Through the efforts of successive generations of water suppliers, Guangzhou citizens can now drink tap water made from high-quality raw water such as Xijiang, Beijiang and Dongjiang, whose water source is far from the central urban area. Through advanced treatment technology, tap water sent to thousands of households can now be kept to a greater extent pure at the source. Through online channels such as WeChat public accounts, online service halls, and APP, 32 water use businesses can be handled with their fingers, and the convenience of water use business "shortens" the distance of tap water flowing from the source to the user.
"In life, what water-saving tips do you know?" The staff asked questions to the children. Through the interaction with the children, the staff told the children about the process of creating a national water-saving city in Guangzhou, and conveyed that although the progress of science and technology can "shorten" the distance between tap water flowing from the source to the user, everyone still needs to save water at any time.
An activity taught the children about the importance of saving water
During a visit, the children had a deeper understanding of the hard-won nature of tap water.
"The water left over from washing vegetables can be used to flush the toilet." Liao Jinglan, a young reporter from the Yangcheng Evening News Student Journalists Club from Hailian Road Primary School, said. Through this activity, Liao Jinglan said: "I learned the knowledge of tap water that I could not learn in the classroom, and I also learned to save water. ”
"I learned how tap water is purified and how it is delivered to every household." Chen Linsheng, a young reporter from the Yangcheng Evening News Student Journalist Club from Yucai Primary School, said after the event. "It's really not easy to get tap water into thousands of homes." Wang Zhenyu, a young reporter from the Yangcheng Evening News Student Journalist Club from Lijiang School (Primary School), said. Lu Zhuojun, a participant in the small journalists' club from the Asian Games City Primary School in Panyu District, said: "Don't wash too long in the future, after washing the rice, you can also water the flowers." ”
"Tap water is a familiar companion in everyone's life, but many people don't understand the production and transportation process of tap water." The staff of Guangzhou Water Supply Company said that as a people's livelihood enterprise, Guangzhou Water Supply Company is also committed to launching science popularization activities while doing a good job in water supply protection, hoping that these activities can enhance everyone's understanding of tap water, so as to improve the awareness of water conservation in life and improve the efficiency of water resource utilization.
The public can pay attention to the "Guangzhou Tap Water 96968" WeChat public account and pay attention to the arrangement of science popularization activities of Guangzhou Water Investment Guangzhou Water Supply Company.
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Source | Yangcheng Evening News Yangcheng Pie
Editor-in-charge | Liang Dongxian