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Projects for Updating Waterworks Under Way in Pyongyang

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, June 8 (KCNA) -- The projects for updating the water supply network are progressing apace in the capital city of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The projects, with main emphasis on updating the equipment, are to expand reservoirs, rehabilitate and arrange the existing water pipes and lay new ones.
    The completion of the projects makes it possible to supply to the citizens drinking water of hundreds of thousands of cubic meters more than now a day, thus solving the issue of drinking water fuller.
    The builders are pushing ahead with the projects for replacing the old facilities of reservoirs and pumping stations with modern ones, along with the construction of well pumping stations.
    Highly effective pumps and electric motors are being installed in some reservoirs to increase the capacity 1.4 times that of the existing ones. The projects for the replacement of equipment have already been finished in some reservoirs and pumping stations.
    The finishing touch is being given to the construction of the central automatic control room which will measure the water level of the reservoirs and distributing centers and observe the amount of water flowing to various directions every hour. And the preparation for installing modern equipment is being vigorously undertaken.
    Officials and members of the February 17 Shock Brigade of Scientists and Technicians dispatched to the Ministry of City Management have already grasped the correct amount, pressure and level of water flowing through the water pipes. They, basing themselves on this, are installing measuring instruments at the final stage.
    Signal successes are being made by workers of the Pyongyang Building Machinery Factory and the Pyongyang City Water Supply and Drainage Construction Company in the production and laying of water pipes.