Base Data of Hanoi Water Business Company

Section 1. Contact Information

1.1 Contact Name:
Mat, Van, Bui
1.2 Title:
Director
1.3 Mailing Address:
44 Yen Phu Road, Hanoi, Vietnam
1.4 Telephone:
84.04.8293179, 84.04.8292478
1.5 Fax:
84.04.294069
1.6 Email Address:
hwbc44yfhn@hn.vnn.vn

Section 2. Water Supply Utility General Information

2.1 Utility Full Name:
Hanoi Water Business Company
2.2 Utility short name or acronym:
HWBC
2.3 Country:
Vietnam
2.4 Region / State / Province:
Hanoi
2.5 Principal city / town:
Hanoi
2.6 Type of services provided by the utility
  • piped water supply services
2.7 Type of water utility: State owned enterprise operating under commercial law
2.8 Extent of private sector involvement in your utility: None

Section 3: Service Area

3.1 Size of Utility’s area of Responsibility:
252.90 km2
3.2 Size of Utility’s present service area:
177.03 km2
3.3 Population of Utility’s area of responsibility:
3,007,000 persons
3.4 Population of Utility’s present service area:
2,170,600 persons
3.5 Population served by the Utility with piped water supply:
2,104,900 persons
3.6 Number of towns served with piped water:
1

Section 4. Infrastructure Description

4.1 Source(s) of raw water
 
  • groundwater
4.2 Main methods of treatment used
  • disinfection
  • filtration
  • floculation and sedimentation
  • aeration
4.3 Capacity of production systems:
382,209 m3/day
4.4 Length of water distribution network:
742 km
4.5 Capacity of storage in network:
69,000 m3
4.6 Piped water supply connections:
Domestic (Households)
252,531
Non Domestic (industrial, commercial, institutional, other)
5,384
TOTAL
257,915
4.7 Number of connections with operating water meters:
4.8 Typical length of service pipe from main to water meter:
m

Section 5. Water Consumption & Production

5.1 Volume of water produced by the Utility:
135.51 million m3 / year
5.2 Volume of water bought in bulk from other utility / company:
4.00 million m3 / year
5.3 Volume of water metered:
78.10 million m3 / year
5.4 Estimated un-metered consumption:
0.78% of metered consumption
5.5 Estimated un-metered consumption due to meter inaccuracy:
5.50% of metered consumption
5.6 Volume of water billed / sold:
Domestic (Households)
54.70 million m3 / year
Non Domestic (industrial, commercial, institutional, other)
23.40 million m3 / year
Bulk water sales
0.00 million m3 / year
TOTAL
78.10 million m3 / year

Section 6. Water Supply System Performance

6.1 Number of customers who received intermittent supply:
51,583 connections
6.2 Typical duration of supply:
24.0 hours / day
6.3 Typical mains water pressure in your pipe network:
8.00 metres
6.4 Number of water pipe breaks in the distribution network:
1,360 # / year
6.5 Required no. of tests of treated water for residual chlorine:
1,320 # / year
6.6 No.of tests of treated water for residual chlorine carried out:
1,167 # / year
6.7 No.of tests of treated water for residual chlorine passed:
153 # / 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
  • contracted out to outside company / agency
7.2 Number of Full Time Equivalent (FTE) staff in the company:
Corporate Services (Management, Admin, Finance, Technical, etc.)
209
Water Supply (O&M, Customer Services, Support Services, etc)
1555
Other non water supply (e.g. wastewater, drainage, environment)
0
TOTAL
1764
7.3 No. of staff that participated in at least one training event during the year:
454 staff
7.4 Total no. of training days (? (participants x training event duration)) in the year:
271 days
7.5 Proportion of total operating budget used for HRD:
0.06%

Section 8. Customers

8.1 No. of new customers connected to water supply system during the year:
30,793 # / year
8.2 Number of customer complaints recorded during the year:
8.3 Means by which customer can make a recorded complaint
  • in person
  • by telephone
  • by letter
  • Through newspaper
8.4 How does the Utility find out the views of its customers
  • from customer interactions (letters, telephone calls, enquiry counter, etc.)
  • by responding to customer complaints
8.5 Typically what is the connection charge for new customers:
  local currency US$
Domestic (Households) 295.00 0.02
Non Domestic (industrial, commercial, institutional, other) 700,000.00 44.39
8.6 Typically what is the water supply fixed charge / month:
  local currency US$
Domestic (Households)
Non Domestic (industrial, commercial, institutional, other)
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 <= 2000 0.13 zero <= 4500 0.29 zero <=
2
> <= > <= > <=
3
> <= > <= > <=
4
>   >   >  
8.8 Monthly water bill for a household consuming 6 m3 of water / month:
VND
US$
12000 0.76

Section 9. Finance

9.1 Water supply revenue of the company:
 
VND
US$
Water sales (consumption related & fixed charges)
139,518,000,000.00
8,847,612.40
Other water related revenue (e.g. materials sales, construction, etc.)
29,388,000,000.00
1,863,656.54
Subsidies and grants from Government & other sources
0.00
0.00
TOTAL
168,906,000,000.00
10,711,268.95
9.2 Year end Accounts Receivable:
VND
US$
55,328,000,000.00 3,508,656.22
9.3 Operating (recurrent) expenses of the company:
 
VND
US$
Water Supply Operating Expenses
148,949,000,000.00
9,445,684.57
Other services (e.g. drainage, wastewater)
0.00
0.00
Company Overhead (Corporate Expenses)
10,494,000,000.00
665,482.91
TOTAL
159,443,000,000.00
10,111,167.48
9.4 Water supply operating expenses of the company:
 
VND
US$
Labour Costs
34,507,000,000.00
2,188,280.80
Electricity
51,132,000,000.00
3,242,564.53
Chemicals & other Materials
16,993,000,000.00
1,077,620.65
Contracted out services
6,176,000,000.00
391,654.51
Other
TOTAL
108,808,000,000.00
6,900,120.49

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 ODA sources
  • Loan from WB
10.2 Gross fixed asset value including works in progress:
 
VND
US$
Water Supply Assets
558,654,000,000
35,427,357
Other services (e.g. drainage, wastewater)
Corporate Assets
TOTAL
558,654,870,000
35,427,413
10.3 Total debt servicing cost per year:
VND
US$
19,545,710,000 1,239,502

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