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Q: Save water not for everyone?
Remember the government asking people all over China to save water a few weeks ago?
Looks like I am doing efforts in vain, just today I saw some public workers outside cleaning the (not even so dirty) pavement with a pipe and water flowing out of it at full speed, and it was not for a short time, I have been in a mall and when I came back about half an hour later they were still here cleaning another part of the pavement.
Oh by the way, should I tell that this pavement is located right in front of the local government's office?
I think I will enjoy my daily baths from now on, my bills being covered by my employer.
When I first moved to GZ, I was surprised that "water trucks" were spraying the streets immediately after rainfalls. Turns out, they were not "water trucks" but "sputtum trucks", replacing all the spit that had been washed away by the rainfall.
Be careful with your assumptions!
Eorthisio:
Hahaha, but it didn't rain here since almost a month, maybe the spit dried and they need to replace it?
there is a building close to where I live that has a pipe sticking out of it. During a typhoon I walked past, saw water gushing from it, thought, 'must be draining the roof'. Then some days later, in perfect sunshine, same, and a week later. This would be water in huge amounts, many cubic meters per day.
Where my MIL live, inside the compound, there are several "free to use taps" people use them to wash cars, some go down and rinse off kitchen stuff etc. But man do they let a lot of water out. It's free, why care. It's not like you can drink it anyway.
I have a secret fear. I only speak of it when I'm drunk. Who runs the water processing plant? I'm afraid to think what kind of job they are doing. All that human waste combined with Chinese workers.... What if they're just pumping the raw sewage right back to us? Sorry, I'm drunk.
Scandinavian:
why on earth would they do that.... requires to have sewage processing facilities, there isn't.
They are catching up, but you don't have to go back many years before the number of sewage treatment plants in Guangzhou (city of 20 million) could be counted using numbers only smaller than 1. Most sewage goes straight back to nature. In some cases that could mean straight back into the water supply.
Got one of them water filters ? If you do, try ripping it off the wall and see how the intake side looks. Most likely some shade of dirty.
The MIL has a filter that has a tap to drain the "outside" of the filter. At normal water usage, if you do this once per day, into a white bucket.... the crap filtered off is yellow. If you don't do it for some days, it gets closer to brown. And this is at a volume measured in hundreds of liters. (shower, dishwashing etc)
