Suspected by the shortage of energy supply, China after the shortage of electricity, there are several cities at the same time “water shortage”, certain villages and towns in Yueqing City, Zhejiang Province, because of water outages, villagers are forced to get water by ticket.
According to “Apple Daily”, Zhejiang Yueqing City, Nan Yue Town, the village in the middle of the recent intermittent water supply, and once stopped water.
The village deputy director said, “the village spent 10,000 yuan (RMB) to buy four large buckets, 20 tons of water from the town of Dajing every day,” but this is far from enough for the village, the first few days ago when the water confusion, once the water situation, the village committee decided to issue a “water ticket”, requiring villagers to take water by ticket.
Yueqing Hongqiao town also has the same problem, a neighborhood car 9 buckets out of the water.
The newspaper reporter called a number of local hotels in Yueqing, the staff confirmed that the villagers’ homes are implementing measures to supply water on odd days and water on even days, but stressed that the water system measures will only affect local villagers, and does not affect commercial water supply. Staff also said that the local restaurants and hotels have water storage tanks, you can use water.
In addition to Zhejiang, Shenzhen Longgang District, there is also a shortage of water supply problems. Some residents pointed out that the water supply has been intermittent for the past six months, so they have to prepare large buckets of water at home for emergencies. Some people said that the water supply was basically cut off in the recent week, and there was only a small amount of running water supply for 1 to 2 hours a day, and they could not take a bath for 3 days.
According to the report, although the official explanation is that there is a “water shortage” because of the low rainfall due to the dry weather, the actual reason may be related to the local authorities to reduce the water pressure in order to save electricity.
Since the end of last year, China’s Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong and other provinces, and even parts of Beijing and Shanghai, have been experiencing power outages. It was a widespread power outage that China had not seen in recent years. In early January this year, half of China was hit by an overwhelming cold wave, with many places in Beijing and Shandong actually losing power and heat at -17°C and -20°C, respectively, causing the country to cry out “it’s freezing. Analysts believe this is related to the Chinese Communist Party’s retaliation against Australia by suspending coal imports from the country.
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