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- Supply of water beneficial to human body
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K-Water aims to realize ‘Supply of water beneficial to human body’ in order to protect the nation’s health and to reduce social costs occurring from distrust in tap water.
‘Supply of water beneficial to human body’ is not just to supply safe water but to produce tap water containing balanced mineral
And to supply water that is drinkable anywhere at any time with the provision of management and information of quantity and quality of water based on Smart Water Grid where cutting-edge ICT is grafted onto from source of water intake to faucet
- Background of business promotion
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Only 1 to 6% of people drink tap water in Korea. The main cause of such distrust in tap water is a vague anxiety in drinking tap water, mistrust in cleanliness of water pipe and tank, and smell of disinfectant and a lot of social costs occur due to such issues.
- - Percentage of people drinking tap water in other countries : USA 56%, Canada 47%, Japan 33%
- - Social costs consumed for purchasing water purifier and drinking water are 2.25 trillion won each year.
- - Drinking water creates 1,000 times more carbons than K-Water tap water does (based on 500ml).
Advanced countries including Japan do their utmost to provide delicious and healthy tap water at present and Korean nation’s standard of selecting drinking water is changing from water simply unharmful to human body to that with good taste and healthiness.
- - Japan: Management of mineral-related indexes such as OI(Index of delicious water) and KI(index of healthy water)
- - Reverse osmosis water purifier which occupies more than 90% of market even removes active ingredient, mineral.
- WG-based supply process of tap water beneficial to human body
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For stable securement of original water, we diversify water intake sources, reinforce management and supervision of quantity and quality of water, and produce tap water containing balanced mineral with minimized taste and smell from sterilization process.
For stable securement of original water, we diversify water intake sources, reinforce management and supervision of quantity and quality of water, and produce tap water containing balanced mineral with minimized taste and smell from sterilization process.
- Issues to be solved for supply of water beneficial to human body
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(work cooperation between departments) Since main agents that manage wide waterworks and local water services are dualized into K-Water and local government, it is required to divide roles and construct a cooperation system between organizations on facilities being managed by local governments.
(development of technique) It is required to develop economical techniques that can establish a standard of appropriate mineral content through a cooperation with the medical world and analyze and monitor the condition of water quality in each stage of tap water supply.
※ 2/3 of Korean land is of volcanic rock and stream water contains mineral elements that are balanced to some degree.
- Plans for promoting beneficial tap water supply
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For preparing the foundation for national trust in tap water by suggesting a model on ‘Supply of water beneficial to human body’, K-Water plans to implement ‘demonstration project’ in Gyoha District in Paju where has the most favorable pipe linenet among water supply facilities being consigned and operated by other local governments from April 2014.
K-Water aims to expand ‘Supply of water beneficial to human body’ in stages, cooperating with other relevant organizations such as Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Ministry of Environment, and local governments on the basis of the effects of such demonstration project and the results of development and application of related techniques.