Improving drinking water supply for the city of Guilin and preserving resources

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The project aims to increase the city’s drinking water treatment capacity by 200,000 m3 a day by building a new drinking water plant. The plant will supply the new Lingui, Balijie and airport districts.The course of the Li River, which will supply this plant, is regulated upstream from Guilin by a series of storage dams. This should ensure sufficient high-quality resources in the long term, including during periods of severe low-water levels. The recommended treatment process provides for the implementation of compact technologies aimed at limiting the land area of the plant.The project is the second step in a broader program including the creation of a river water intake and pumping of the water to the treatment plant at the upstream end, and strengthening and extending the treated water supply system downstream.