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JWA started water supply support operations on Ainoshima Island in Shingu Town, Fukuoka Prefecture 12 February, 2019

Japan Water Agency started water supply support operations on Ainoshima Island in Shingu Town off the coast not far from Fukuoka City, the largest city in Kyushu, with the use of a portable water purification unit from 27 January, 2019. Because of little rainfall since the beginning of October 2018, Ainoshima Island faced the possible dry up of water resources soon. Accordingly its municipality requested for the support of the Japan Water Agency through the Kyushu Regional Bureau of the Japan Water Works Association, following "the agreement on support activities at the time of the disaster" signed in December 2018 between these two parties. This was the first application case.

Details

Place of water supply
Ainoshima Elementary School schoolyard, Ainoshima, Shingu Town, Fukuoka Pref.
Water Supply Capacity
50m³ per day (max.) equivalent to approx. 2,700 pcs of 18 liter plastic containers
Notes:
*1:The portable water purification unit of the Japan Water Agency has the capability of working as a desalination unit. It can be loaded on a truck and work as a portable unit to convert water to drinkable water at the time of disaster.
*2:The figure shown as the supply capacity is the theoretical value calculated when it is operated for 24 hour and the actual figures may become different depending on the actual operation time.

Water Supply Support by JWA

The Japan Water Agency intakes the seawater from the ocean near the schoolyard of Ainoshima Elementary School and generates desalinated water through the portable water purification unit installed on the schoolyard. Then desalinated water is pumped up into the No. 1 Storage Pond of Shingu Town located on the elevated ground near the school for storage.

Location of Ainoshima (Island)
A Portable Water Purification Unit

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