Base Data of Da Nang Water Supply Company

Section 1. Contact Information

1.1 Contact Name:
Kiem, Ngoc, Pham
1.2 Title:
Vice Director
1.3 Mailing Address:
No 45, Ngo Gia Tu, Da Nang City
1.4 Telephone:
0511.824.987 , 0913.406.245
1.5 Fax:
0511.827.633
1.6 Email Address:
pnkiem@vnn.vn

Section 2. Water Supply Utility General Information

2.1 Utility Full Name:
Da Nang Water Supply Company
2.2 Utility short name or acronym:
2.3 Country:
Vietnam
2.4 Region / State / Province:
Da Nang
2.5 Principal city / town:
Da Nang
2.6 Type of services provided by the utility
  • piped water supply services
  • Design Consultancy, water facility installation & construction, material purchasing
2.7 Type of water utility: State owned enterprise operating under commercial law
2.8 Extent of private sector involvement in your utility:
  • service contract(s)

Section 3: Service Area

3.1 Size of Utility’s area of Responsibility:
230.00 km2
3.2 Size of Utility’s present service area:
200.00 km2
3.3 Population of Utility’s area of responsibility:
662,000 persons
3.4 Population of Utility’s present service area:
558,000 persons
3.5 Population served by the Utility with piped water supply:
359,000 persons
3.6 Number of towns served with piped water:
6

Section 4. Infrastructure Description

4.1 Source(s) of raw water
 
  • direct river abstraction
  • Stream Water
4.2 Main methods of treatment used
  • filtration
  • floculation and sedimentation
4.3 Capacity of production systems:
80,000 m3/day
4.4 Length of water distribution network:
382 km
4.5 Capacity of storage in network:
m3
4.6 Piped water supply connections:
Domestic (Households)
52,700
Non Domestic (industrial, commercial, institutional, other)
1,700
TOTAL
54,400
4.7 Number of connections with operating water meters:
54,000
4.8 Typical length of service pipe from main to water meter:
8.00 m

Section 5. Water Consumption & Production

5.1 Volume of water produced by the Utility:
34.50 million m3 / year
5.2 Volume of water bought in bulk from other utility / company:
0.00 million m3 / year
5.3 Volume of water metered:
17.20 million m3 / year
5.4 Estimated un-metered consumption:
4.60% of metered consumption
5.5 Estimated un-metered consumption due to meter inaccuracy:
4.00% of metered consumption
5.6 Volume of water billed / sold:
Domestic (Households)
13.00 million m3 / year
Non Domestic (industrial, commercial, institutional, other)
4.20 million m3 / year
Bulk water sales
0.00 million m3 / year
TOTAL
17.20 million m3 / year

Section 6. Water Supply System Performance

6.1 Number of customers who received intermittent supply:
0 connections
6.2 Typical duration of supply:
24.0 hours / day
6.3 Typical mains water pressure in your pipe network:
5.00 metres
6.4 Number of water pipe breaks in the distribution network:
3,400 # / year
6.5 Required no. of tests of treated water for residual chlorine:
1,200 # / year
6.6 No.of tests of treated water for residual chlorine carried out:
1,200 # / year
6.7 No.of tests of treated water for residual chlorine passed:
1,000 # / year

Section 7. Staff

7.1 Who does the work in your company:
  • permanent staff – salaried Government employees
  • permanent staff – with contract
  • casual / part-time – contract staff
  • casual / part-time – wages
7.2 Number of Full Time Equivalent (FTE) staff in the company:
Corporate Services (Management, Admin, Finance, Technical, etc.)
116
Water Supply (O&M, Customer Services, Support Services, etc)
264
Other non water supply (e.g. wastewater, drainage, environment)
0
TOTAL
380
7.3 No. of staff that participated in at least one training event during the year:
100 staff
7.4 Total no. of training days (? (participants x training event duration)) in the year:
1000 days
7.5 Proportion of total operating budget used for HRD:
2.50%

Section 8. Customers

8.1 No. of new customers connected to water supply system during the year:
7,000 # / year
8.2 Number of customer complaints recorded during the year:
500 # / year
8.3 Means by which customer can make a recorded complaint
  • in person
  • by telephone
  • by letter
  • Direct contact with Director
8.4 How does the Utility find out the views of its customers
  • by responding to customer complaints
8.5 Typically what is the connection charge for new customers:
  local currency US$
Domestic (Households) 850,000.00 53.90
Non Domestic (industrial, commercial, institutional, other) 1,500,000.00 95.12
8.6 Typically what is the water supply fixed charge / month:
  local currency US$
Domestic (Households) 0.00 0.00
Non Domestic (industrial, commercial, institutional, other) 0.00 0.00
Bulk water sales
8.7 Typically what is the water tariff for metered consumption:
Tariff Block
Domestic
Non Domestic
Bulk water sales
From
To
Cost/m3
From
To
Cost/m3
From
To
Cost/m3
(m3/month)
(m3/month)
VND
US$
(m3/month)
(m3/month)
VND
US$
(m3/month)
(m3/month)
VND
US$
1
zero <= 1560 0.10 zero <= 3660 0.23 zero <=
2
> <= > <= > <=
3
> <= > <= > <=
4
>   >   >  
8.8 Monthly water bill for a household consuming 6 m3 of water / month:
VND
US$
11160 0.71

Section 9. Finance

9.1 Water supply revenue of the company:
 
VND
US$
Water sales (consumption related & fixed charges)
33,510,000,000.00
2,125,055.49
Other water related revenue (e.g. materials sales, construction, etc.)
11,333,000,000.00
718,688.57
Subsidies and grants from Government & other sources
0.00
0.00
TOTAL
44,843,000,000.00
2,843,744.05
9.2 Year end Accounts Receivable:
VND
US$
7,500,000,000.00 475,616.72
9.3 Operating (recurrent) expenses of the company:
 
VND
US$
Water Supply Operating Expenses
28,000,000,000.00
1,775,635.74
Other services (e.g. drainage, wastewater)
0.00
0.00
Company Overhead (Corporate Expenses)
4,000,000,000.00
253,662.25
TOTAL
32,000,000,000.00
2,029,297.99
9.4 Water supply operating expenses of the company:
 
VND
US$
Labour Costs
6,098,000,000.00
386,708.10
Electricity
6,859,000,000.00
434,967.34
Chemicals & other Materials
2,084,000,000.00
132,158.03
Contracted out services
73,000,000.00
4,629.34
Other
203,000,000.00
12,873.36
TOTAL
15,317,000,000.00
971,336.17

Section 10. Capital Investment

10.1 Principal source of funds for investment in the last 5 years:
  • own internal sources of funding
  • grant from Government or ODA project
  • loan from Government Bank.
  • loan from ODA sources
  • loan from Commercial Bank
10.2 Gross fixed asset value including works in progress:
 
VND
US$
Water Supply Assets
331,007,000,000
20,990,995
Other services (e.g. drainage, wastewater)
0
0
Corporate Assets
TOTAL
331,007,000,000
20,990,995
10.3 Total debt servicing cost per year:
VND
US$
3,600,000,000 228,296

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