Base Data of Hai Phong Water Supply Company

Section 1. Contact Information

1.1 Contact Name:
Ninh, Dang, Nguyen
1.2 Title:
Officer of Planning Department
1.3 Mailing Address:
No 54 - Dinh Tien Hoang Street - Hai Phong
1.4 Telephone:
031 745947, 0913 579888
1.5 Fax:
031 823748
1.6 Email Address:
dangning202@yahoo.com

Section 2. Water Supply Utility General Information

2.1 Utility Full Name:
Hai Phong Water Supply Company
2.2 Utility short name or acronym:
HPWSCO
2.3 Country:
Vietnam
2.4 Region / State / Province:
Hai Phong
2.5 Principal city / town:
Hai Phong
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:
78.60 km2
3.2 Size of Utility’s present service area:
56.40 km2
3.3 Population of Utility’s area of responsibility:
829,000 persons
3.4 Population of Utility’s present service area:
650,000 persons
3.5 Population served by the Utility with piped water supply:
614,000 persons
3.6 Number of towns served with piped water:
12

Section 4. Infrastructure Description

4.1 Source(s) of raw water
 
  • direct river abstraction
4.2 Main methods of treatment used
  • filtration
4.3 Capacity of production systems:
176,000 m3/day
4.4 Length of water distribution network:
1,300 km
4.5 Capacity of storage in network:
23,000 m3
4.6 Piped water supply connections:
Domestic (Households)
136,500
Non Domestic (industrial, commercial, institutional, other)
2,500
TOTAL
139,000
4.7 Number of connections with operating water meters:
137,500
4.8 Typical length of service pipe from main to water meter:
3.50 m

Section 5. Water Consumption & Production

5.1 Volume of water produced by the Utility:
42.50 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:
30.00 million m3 / year
5.4 Estimated un-metered consumption:
30.00% of metered consumption
5.5 Estimated un-metered consumption due to meter inaccuracy:
2.00% of metered consumption
5.6 Volume of water billed / sold:
Domestic (Households)
22.50 million m3 / year
Non Domestic (industrial, commercial, institutional, other)
7.50 million m3 / year
Bulk water sales
0.00 million m3 / year
TOTAL
30.00 million m3 / year

Section 6. Water Supply System Performance

6.1 Number of customers who received intermittent supply:
14,560 connections
6.2 Typical duration of supply:
21.5 hours / day
6.3 Typical mains water pressure in your pipe network:
25.00 metres
6.4 Number of water pipe breaks in the distribution network:
600 # / year
6.5 Required no. of tests of treated water for residual chlorine:
32,000 # / year
6.6 No.of tests of treated water for residual chlorine carried out:
32,000 # / year
6.7 No.of tests of treated water for residual chlorine passed:
32,000 # / year

Section 7. Staff

7.1 Who does the work in your company:
  • permanent staff – salaried Government employees
7.2 Number of Full Time Equivalent (FTE) staff in the company:
Corporate Services (Management, Admin, Finance, Technical, etc.)
175
Water Supply (O&M, Customer Services, Support Services, etc)
596
Other non water supply (e.g. wastewater, drainage, environment)
0
TOTAL
771
7.3 No. of staff that participated in at least one training event during the year:
350 staff
7.4 Total no. of training days (? (participants x training event duration)) in the year:
867 days
7.5 Proportion of total operating budget used for HRD:
0.76%

Section 8. Customers

8.1 No. of new customers connected to water supply system during the year:
8,300 # / year
8.2 Number of customer complaints recorded during the year:
112 # / year
8.3 Means by which customer can make a recorded complaint
  • in person
  • by telephone
  • by letter
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) 750,000.00 47.56
Non Domestic (industrial, commercial, institutional, other) 2,500,000.00 158.54
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 0.00 0.00
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 <=4 2500 0.16 zero <= 5150 0.33 zero <= 3700 0.23
2
>4 <= 3000 0.19 > <= > <=
3
> <= > <= > <=
4
>   >   >  
8.8 Monthly water bill for a household consuming 6 m3 of water / month:
VND
US$
16000 1.01

Section 9. Finance

9.1 Water supply revenue of the company:
 
VND
US$
Water sales (consumption related & fixed charges)
88,400,000,000.00
5,605,935.70
Other water related revenue (e.g. materials sales, construction, etc.)
7,700,000,000.00
488,299.83
Subsidies and grants from Government & other sources
0.00
0.00
TOTAL
96,100,000,000.00
6,094,235.53
9.2 Year end Accounts Receivable:
VND
US$
134,000,000.00 8,497.69
9.3 Operating (recurrent) expenses of the company:
 
VND
US$
Water Supply Operating Expenses
77,500,000,000.00
4,914,706.07
Other services (e.g. drainage, wastewater)
0.00
0.00
Company Overhead (Corporate Expenses)
8,600,000,000.00
545,373.83
TOTAL
86,100,000,000.00
5,460,079.90
9.4 Water supply operating expenses of the company:
 
VND
US$
Labour Costs
17,900,000,000.00
1,135,138.56
Electricity
12,000,000,000.00
760,986.75
Chemicals & other Materials
3,000,000,000.00
190,246.69
Contracted out services
Other
TOTAL
32,900,000,000.00
2,086,372.00

Section 10. Capital Investment

10.1 Principal source of funds for investment in the last 5 years:
  • own internal sources of funding
  • loan from Government Bank.
10.2 Gross fixed asset value including works in progress:
 
VND
US$
Water Supply Assets
422,000,000,000
26,761,367
Other services (e.g. drainage, wastewater)
0
0
Corporate Assets
4,000,000,000
253,662
TOTAL
426,000,000,000
27,015,029
10.3 Total debt servicing cost per year:
VND
US$
6,000,000,000 380,493

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