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Da River Water Plant resumes water supply to Hanoi
  • By Quang Phong | dtinews.vn | October 17, 2019 01:53 PM
Da River Water Plant resumed tap water supply to Hanoi from 9 pm on October 16 after dealing with oil contamination.


  

Hanoians waiting for clean water on October 15

Nguyen Van Toi, Director of Fresh Water Business and Construction Investment JSC, confirmed the news.

"After the operation is resumed, the water pressure will increase gradually. All customers will have water again today," he said.

Fresh Water Business and Construction Investment JSC are providing water to over 150,000 customers in Thanh Xuan, Nam Tu Liem and a part of Hoang Mai, Cau Giay and Thanh Tri districts. Each day, about 100,000 cubic metres of water from the Da River Water Company is consumed.

Lai Van Thinh, Director of Ha Dong Water Company said Da River Water Company started providing water again. Thinh said each day, they received 40,000 to 45,000 cubic meters of water from Da River Water Company.

In the early morning of October 16, Da River Water Plant announced that it would temporarily stop providing water to the western districts in Hanoi in order to clean up the water tanks and pipes after the oil contamination.

Authorities in Hanoi on October 15 warned local people that tap water in some districts including Ha Dong, Thanh Xuan, and Hoang Mai is contaminated with styrene, a carcinogenic substance, caused by oil discharged at a stream near the reservoir of the Da River Water Plant.

It was not until residents in some districts in Hanoi reported a smell similar to burning plastic coming from their tap water supplied by the plant that local authorities started an investigation. Police in Hoa Binh Province are seeking an unidentified 2.5-tonne truck that dumped oil into the stream near a reservoir.

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