Taizhou, Zhejiang Province has suspended water supply to industries with high water consumption. How serious is the drought in Zhejiang?
Taizhou, Zhejiang Province has suspended water supply to industries with high water consumption. How serious is the drought in Zhejiang?
?All our car washers are on holiday. ? Boss Lai of Xinqidian, the largest car wash in Sanmen, Taizhou, said that he had stopped his car wash business the day before yesterday after seeing the water conservation notice issued by the relevant departments. Under normal circumstances, his three stores in Sanmen City can receive hundreds of car wash customers every day.
Taizhou Sanmen has suspended water supply to high-water-consuming service industries such as swimming, bathing (sauna spa, foot bath), car washing, and water entertainment venues in the county. It is strictly prohibited to use tap water for landscaping, road washing and other municipal water. It is illegal to open fire hydrants and water pipes to draw water without permission to protect the water needs of urban and rural residents. At the same time, the Sanmen County Government has decided to impose restrictions on water supply in the county's water supply interconnected areas at an appropriate time if the drought continues to intensify.
In fact, Sanmen County has entered an extraordinary drought-resistant period on December 1, 2020. The county’s reservoirs are seriously insufficient and the water supply situation is severe, which has seriously affected the normal life and production of residents. The local area has started Drought level II emergency response. Sanmen County formulates water supply plans for different regions and time periods to ensure that limited water resources are used where they are most urgently needed. Sanmen County's industry and commerce are greatly affected by water cutoff restrictions, and most coastal industrial cities have reduced or suspended production.
There are 29 single-village water supply projects in Sanmen, and a total of 18,771 people have difficulty drinking water. The water supply of Jiantiao Water Plant has stopped industrial water supply and implemented time-sharing water supply measures every day. Lipu Water Plant implements water supply measures on alternate days. Xiongsi Water Plant implements time-sharing water supply measures. In 12 villages without backup water sources, 9,303 people have difficulty drinking water and have to draw water from nearby rivers and ponds. Relevant towns and villages actively organized entrepreneur associations to set up emergency water delivery fleets to deliver water to enterprises in industrial parks and people with drinking water difficulties. Sanmen is a microcosm of the drought in Zhejiang. Areas with severe water shortages such as Wenling, Yongjia, and Xiangshan are also planning to implement zoning, time-limited, and rationed water supply. The water town of Zhejiang is suffering from drought.
Looking at the water storage situation, at present, the total water storage capacity of large and medium-sized reservoirs in the province is 21.56 billion cubic meters, 900 million cubic meters less than the same period, which can basically guarantee normal water supply needs for more than three months; In some islands, coastal areas, and mountainous areas outside the centralized water supply areas of large and medium-sized reservoirs, due to continued low rainfall, water sources have been cut off, and reservoir storage is seriously insufficient.
Judging from the current situation of water supply, the areas with tight water supply are distributed in 6 cities including Hangzhou, Ningbo, Wenzhou, Jinhua, Taizhou and Lishui. The water supply sources are close to drying up or the water storage in mountain ponds is obviously insufficient; water supply The difficult areas are mainly concentrated in the mountainous rural areas of Hangzhou, Ningbo, Wenzhou and Jinhua Pan'an, where streams have dried up and mountain ponds have bottomed out.