Chapter 660 Water Resources Are Too Scarce?

Compared with the deserted one a year ago, the Presidential Palace on Koro Island is much more lively. Because the outline of the white paint and marble columns resembles the White House and the magnificent subtropical garden, it is also regarded as one of the tourist attractions by tourists who visit here.

On the lawn in front of the courtyard, Jiang Chen could see bodyguards in suits and sunglasses, as well as tourists taking pictures.

When Jiang Chen arrived, the president's chief of staff was already waiting at the door.

In the entire Singapore, he is the only one who does not need an appointment to meet the president. After explaining his purpose, the chief of staff respectfully led him into the hall and led him to the office.

There are two people sitting on the sofa in the office.

One of them was naturally Zhang Yaping, while the white man Jiang Chen looked a little unfamiliar.

Seeing Jiang Chen coming in, the two stood up, and Zhang Yaping first introduced Jiang Chen on the basis of the principle of honor first.

"This is Jiang Chen, the chairman of Future People Group, a star enterprise in Xinguo, you should have heard of it."

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Jiang Chen." Wearing a black suit with a clean shaven mouth, Smith politely extended his hand to Jiang Chen.

"This is the representative of the American Matrix Seawater Desalination Company, Luther Smith." Then, Zhang Yaping introduced this Mr. Smith to Jiang Chen with a smile.

"Hi, Mr. Smith, nice to meet you too."

After shaking hands with him, Jiang Chen nodded with a smile, then took his seat, and turned his questioning gaze to President Zhang Yaping.

Sensing the inquiry in his eyes, Zhang Yaping immediately said with a smile.

"That's right. We are currently planning to build a seawater desalination plant in the mainland of Xinguo, so we invited the American Matrix Seawater Desalination Company and asked them to do an engineering assessment for us on Koro Island."

"Sea desalination plant? Is there not enough fresh water on the island?" Jiang Chen asked unexpectedly.

"It's not enough, the country's current fresh water has been imported from Australia." Smith teased, and took out a stack of documents from his briefcase, "This document is the distribution of groundwater on the island, and this is the selection of the water treatment plant." site."

Jiang Chen had no idea how much water and electricity bills he had to pay for his villa every month. He didn't even bother to look at the bills of thousands and hundreds. What's more, he always runs towards the end of the world. He didn't realize the problem until Zhang Yaping mentioned it.

Before the 20th century,

The underground freshwater resources of Koro Island were originally very rich. However, with global warming. Sea levels are rising, washing away roads and houses on the island. As a result, the backflow of seawater has seriously polluted the groundwater, and the freshwater resources around the island no longer exist. The drinking water on the island can only rely on the remaining groundwater in the center of the island and the small freshwater lake on Jialin Island next door.

Tropical rainfall. Originally, the fresh water resources in the new country were sufficient, but with the increase of immigrants and the surge of tourism, the water supply system could only supply drinking water for 50,000 people. Now it has to provide water to 150,000 people. In order to avoid paying for expensive water prices, many tourists even travel with mineral water in their backpacks.

However, the locals are suffering. You can't even buy fresh water on Amazon.

Including laborers who have not obtained citizenship, the population of Singapore has grown to 50,000.

It is generally believed that in a big city with good facilities. Each person needs to consume 400 kilograms of fresh water per day, which means that the normal domestic water consumption in Singapore requires 20,000 tons of water per day. According to statistics, about 1%-2% of the normal urban water supply is for drinking, so to maintain the drinking water needs of Singapore residents, at least 200-400 tons of fresh water is needed every day.

Bathing can be saved, but drinking water is not saved!

Fortunately, the new government has money, and the water supply contract signed with the Australian Water Industry Company is a 12,000-ton fresh water supply contract per day to ease the pressure on domestic water supply. However, the high shipping costs doomed that importing fresh water could not be a long-term solution.

The New National Assembly voted to prepare a tender for the construction of desalination plants on Koro Island to curb high water prices.

Before popular discontent turned into protests.

Jiang Chen flipped through the file casually, and Zhang Yaping continued beside him.

"We plan to hand over the seawater desalination plant to you. If the Future Group is not interested, we can think of another way."

"Why don't you leave it to the waterworks?" Jiang Chen asked casually.

In Jiang Chen’s impression, it is the Australian City-West-Wate Company, referred to as CWW Group, which is responsible for the supply of fresh water and the maintenance of tap water pipelines in the Pannu Islands. Jiang Chen really has no interest in the fresh water supply market.

Even if the high price of five dollars a ton of water monopolizes the fresh water business in the whole of Xinguo, the monthly net profit of this seawater desalination plant is only half a million dollars.

The annual income is only 6 million. Compared with the income of the Future Group in the Internet, food, robotics, automobile industry, medical and other fields, it is not even a small profit.

"The CWW Group believes that our market is not enough to support a seawater desalination plant, and it simply ignores our bidding documents. And other small companies have no ability to accept bids. If it is not possible, the parliament is discussing this seawater desalination project as a social Welfare programs are run by the government like public schools." Zhang Yaping said with a wry smile.

Continued financial subsidies for fresh water, even if the new government has money, it will not be able to bear it.

"What's your opinion?" Jiang Chen looked at Smith.

Smith smiled slightly, took the document in Jiang Chen's hand, and turned to a page with a color picture.

"Aiming at the situation in the Panu Islands, our company recommends this integrated seawater desalination device using the LT-MED principle in the document. The daily processing capacity of the entire seawater desalination production line can reach 35,000 tons, and the processing cost per ton $1.6 can perfectly solve the water supply crisis that the country is currently facing.”

"What about the price?"

"Including the construction of the treatment plant, our offer is 150 million US dollars."

"Too expensive." Zhang Yaping shook his head.

Even without considering the cost of equipment maintenance, under ideal conditions, this fresh water treatment plant will take more than 30 years to recover the investment cost. Although the money was not bad, Jiang Chen had no reason to accept a deal that was destined to lose money.

Smith smiled helplessly.

"Desalination of seawater is a long-term investment. Believe me, a one-time investment is definitely more cost-effective than long-term imports of fresh water."

"Can't it be cheaper?"

"This is the market price." Smith said in an uncompromising tone, "The seawater desalination equipment designed by our Matrix Seawater Desalination Company for the Maldives, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and other countries is much more expensive than the ones sold to you."

To be honest, after so many days of talking about this matter, Smith is also a little impatient.

Negotiations have been going on for so long, but there is no progress at all. The new government wants to desalinate seawater, but it doesn't want to pay for it itself. The largest water supplier, CWW Group, shut him down again, making him feel like he was wasting his time.

The company urged him to resolve the matter as soon as possible, and took his team to Saudi Arabia. There is also a project worth 1 billion US dollars waiting for him in cooperation with the Saudi Seawater Desalination Corporation.

At this time, Jiang Chen suddenly spoke.

"Wait, you mean...the market price of seawater desalination equipment is very expensive?"

"What else? Do you think desalination is just setting up a stove to boil water? I recommend you try it."

Leaving this unceremonious sentence behind, Smith stood up, left a business card on the table, and looked at Zhang Yaping.

"Unfortunately, Mr. President, we failed to reach a cooperation agreement, and my team and I have wasted a week on the island. We can only settle the cost of the geological assessment and the site selection of the water treatment plant separately. The bill We will send it to the Presidential Palace in seven days. If you and your think tank are sure to discuss it, please contact us at that time. I have a plane in two hours, see you later.”

After saying that, Smith picked up his briefcase and left without looking back.

Zhang Yaping wanted to persuade him to stay, but was held back by Jiang Chen.

"Let him go, I don't care about cooperating with them." Jiang Chen said with a smile.

"Hey, if it doesn't work, the money is still available. You can't keep importing fresh water from abroad... Wait, what are you talking about? Are you planning to get involved in the fresh water business?" Zhang Yaping suddenly recalled, Looking at Jiang Chen in surprise.

If the Future Group intends to take over the project, he has nothing to worry about!

"I didn't plan to do that at first," Jiang Chen said bluntly, and then he smiled again, "But according to what he said, the market size for seawater desalination seems to be a bit big."

What a mistake, his eyes were fixed on Xinguo, Jiang Chen almost forgot that Xinguo is not the only country in the world that lacks water! Those big oil countries such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are all owners whose water is more expensive than gold.

Let's not talk about the far ones, let's talk about the near ones. Why did Huaguo engage in the costly south-to-north water diversion project? Isn't it because of the lack of water in the north! If more than a dozen freshwater treatment plants can be built along the coast of the Bohai Sea, will the south-to-north water diversion still be useful?

Desalination of sea water is not a petty profit, it is a huge profit! Is desalination technology a problem in the 22nd century? What reverse osmosis method, low temperature multi-effect method, electrodialysis method are simply weak!

I really lost my mind, and almost missed the banknotes at my feet.

Thinking of this, Jiang Chen couldn't sit still anymore, he slapped his thigh and stood up.

Heh, sorry, Matrix Desalination Company, right? From now on, you have competitors!

Seeing that Jiang Chen was about to leave, Zhang Yaping couldn't help asking anxiously.

"Are you going?"

He didn't stop Smith from leaving just now, but now Jiang Chen was going to leave without saying a word, he couldn't help feeling a little anxious.

Someone has to solve this fresh water problem!

Stopping in his tracks, Jiang Chen turned his head and smiled at him.

"Go and talk to CWW Group. It suddenly occurred to me just now that the seawater desalination equipment seems to be able to be made by Renhe in the future."

Hearing Jiang Chen's "it seems to be", Zhang Yaping almost vomited blood out of breath, and complained a few words about Jiang Chen in his heart.

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