A few days ago, this newspaper was the first to report "do 1 ton of pure water out of 3 tons of wastewater water purifier into a" fee water machine "to disclose the water purifier waste of water insiders. Yesterday, some industry insiders told reporters that, compared with domestic water purifiers, currently spread throughout the community "live water purification vending machine" is a shocking waste of at least 30,000 tons of non-recycled water every day into the sewers for nothing.
Investigation
"Wastewater" is discharged directly into the sewers
"Spend a dollar, swipe your card, and take home 5 liters of pure living water." This in the past year or two active in Beijing residential neighborhoods "live water purification vending machine" quite a concern, especially by the health-conscious middle-aged and elderly residents welcome.
In a residential neighborhood near Nanmufang Road in Chaoyang District, a "live water purification machine" placed close to a residential building is doing good business. The security guards on patrol in the district told reporters that every morning there are old neighborhoods with a bucket to swipe the card to play water, "1 yuan 5 liters of pure water, and is now selling, feel more assured than the barrel and cost-effective." The reporter saw that the vending machine is connected to a long pipe to the residential building, "This is the water pipe."
The reporter pretended to do water card, found in the building rented a residential vending machine agents. The agent surnamed Li told reporters that they used to produce "live water" source is ordinary tap water; filtered "live water" through the vending machine sales. "This is the essence of the water, 4 tons of water to 1 ton of pure water!" Li agent strongly recommended their products to the reporter, and when the reporter asked "that left 3 tons of water how to deal with?"
Accounting
A machine wastes 3 tons of water a day
"The biggest drawback of this direct water dispenser is that it wastes water, and the utilization rate of tap water is even less than 25%." A water machine agents have done an industry insider to the reporter to calculate a "waste water account": "the daily water production capacity of such machines are in 1 ton or so, which means that if the "waste water" is not used, every day, each machine wasted more than 3 tons of water. "
He disclosed to the reporter, now Beijing's residential areas, at least 10,000 units of the use of "reverse osmosis membrane" principle of automatic water vending machine, if only 30% of the equipment in the work of the calculation, which is equivalent to every day in Beijing, the district at least wasted nearly 10,000 tons of water. It is understood that the highest daily water consumption in Beijing this summer is 2.78 million tons. And the average family water consumption in about 10 tons per month, the community water purifier one day wasted enough water for 1000 families with a month.
Most of those operating such machines are franchised agents, who often rent a single-family house and use the incoming tap water directly for production. Once upon a time, the neighborhood live water purification vending machine due to health problems were repeatedly exposed by the media, after which Beijing introduced the "Beijing field production, sale of drinking water health management approach" to strengthen supervision; but for the provisions of the wastewater treatment has always been "a blank slate".
Questions
"Concentrated water" in the end can "cycle"
"Wastewater" does not circulate, does not mean there is no solution. The reporter contacted Beijing Meijin and Run Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd, which is a professional R & D, manufacturing "reverse osmosis water purification equipment wastewater treatment device" of the enterprise. "Discharge of" wastewater "professionally called concentrated water, can be collected with special equipment, pressurized and utilized." The person in charge of the company told reporters.
Since we know is a large waste of water, the neighborhood "live water purification vending machine" agents why do not want to solve this problem? The reporter roughly calculated that this machine produces pure water priced at 5 liters / yuan, per ton of pure water gross income of 200 yuan. At present, the price of residential water 3.7 yuan / ton, if each machine every day with 4 tons of raw water to make 1 ton of pure water calculation, the total cost of expenditure of 14.80 yuan per ton of net profit of 185.20 yuan. A month down, a machine's net income can reach 5556 yuan. In front of such a huge profit, the cost of water wasted ($333) is simply "not worth mentioning".
Appeal
Don't let water appliances become a "big waste"
The reporter saw in the "Oasis Ecology" and other famous environmental forums, has been, many netizens are calling on the relevant departments to introduce laws and regulations as soon as possible! But in recent years, "water home appliances" in the Chinese market, compared to the rapid development of both manufacturers and users of water conservation awareness is far from enough.
The reporter learned that, due to the growing concern of urban residents about drinking water health, the store in the "water home appliances" sales more and more prosperous. Beijing Dazhong Electrical Appliances in the tower store, for example, in November this year, a variety of average price of more than 2,000 yuan of water purifiers, water purifiers and other sales of more than 130 units, an average of 4-5 units sold every day; this figure in the past is unimaginable.
But whether it's a vending machine in the neighborhood or a high-priced "water purifier" that consumers take home, most are not equipped with recycling hardware. Some standardized practices in the installation of manufacturers will remind consumers to pay attention to the "waste water" stored for reuse, while more installers pull a pipe, a large number of clear water discharged directly into the sewer, consumers are often in the water meter turns fast before finding problems. Therefore, if the manufacturer of water machines do not take the initiative to assume responsibility for water conservation, "water purifier" in the "healthy home appliances" good reputation, I am afraid that always have to carry the "waste of home appliances" reputation.