Base Data of Thua Thien Hue Water Supply & Sewerage Company

Section 1. Contact Information

1.1 Contact Name:
Hien, Khoa, Nguyen
1.2 Title:
Chief Director of Planning Department
1.3 Mailing Address:
103 Bui Thi Xuan - Hue City
1.4 Telephone:
84-054 833710, 84-815555-205
1.5 Fax:
84-054826580
1.6 Email Address:
nguyenkhoahien@yahoo.com

Section 2. Water Supply Utility General Information

2.1 Utility Full Name:
Thua Thien Hue Water Supply & Sewerage Company
2.2 Utility short name or acronym:
CTCTN Hue
2.3 Country:
Vietnam
2.4 Region / State / Province:
Thua Thien Hue
2.5 Principal city / town:
Thua Thien Hue Province
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:
5,055.00 km2
3.2 Size of Utility’s present service area:
km2
3.3 Population of Utility’s area of responsibility:
1,118,612 persons
3.4 Population of Utility’s present service area:
1,118,612 persons
3.5 Population served by the Utility with piped water supply:
416,482 persons
3.6 Number of towns served with piped water:
9

Section 4. Infrastructure Description

4.1 Source(s) of raw water
 
  • direct river abstraction
4.2 Main methods of treatment used
  • filtration
  • floculation and sedimentation
4.3 Capacity of production systems:
99,200 m3/day
4.4 Length of water distribution network:
680 km
4.5 Capacity of storage in network:
11,250 m3
4.6 Piped water supply connections:
Domestic (Households)
43,421
Non Domestic (industrial, commercial, institutional, other)
2,046
TOTAL
45,467
4.7 Number of connections with operating water meters:
45,467
4.8 Typical length of service pipe from main to water meter:
16.80 m

Section 5. Water Consumption & Production

5.1 Volume of water produced by the Utility:
20.25 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:
17.30 million m3 / year
5.4 Estimated un-metered consumption:
5.5 Estimated un-metered consumption due to meter inaccuracy:
5.6 Volume of water billed / sold:
Domestic (Households)
12.18 million m3 / year
Non Domestic (industrial, commercial, institutional, other)
3.81 million m3 / year
Bulk water sales
0.00 million m3 / year
TOTAL
15.99 million m3 / year

Section 6. Water Supply System Performance

6.1 Number of customers who received intermittent supply:

6.2 Typical duration of supply:
24.0 hours / day
6.3 Typical mains water pressure in your pipe network:
17.65 metres
6.4 Number of water pipe breaks in the distribution network:
1,697 # / year
6.5 Required no. of tests of treated water for residual chlorine:

6.6 No.of tests of treated water for residual chlorine carried out:
58,400 # / year
6.7 No.of tests of treated water for residual chlorine passed:
57,232 # / 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
  • 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.)
Water Supply (O&M, Customer Services, Support Services, etc)
487
Other non water supply (e.g. wastewater, drainage, environment)
TOTAL
487
7.3 No. of staff that participated in at least one training event during the year:
164 staff
7.4 Total no. of training days (? (participants x training event duration)) in the year:
4920 days
7.5 Proportion of total operating budget used for HRD:
0.00%

Section 8. Customers

8.1 No. of new customers connected to water supply system during the year:
8,541 # / year
8.2 Number of customer complaints recorded during the year:
938 # / year
8.3 Means by which customer can make a recorded complaint
  • in person
  • by telephone
  • by email
  • 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
  • from customer surveys, questionnaires, etc.
  • Through holding workshop/seminar to increase more customers; customer workshop
8.5 Typically what is the connection charge for new customers:
  local currency US$
Domestic (Households) 934,000.00 59.23
Non Domestic (industrial, commercial, institutional, other)
8.6 Typically what is the water supply fixed charge / month:
  local currency US$
Domestic (Households) 1,500.00 0.10
Non Domestic (industrial, commercial, institutional, other) 1,500.00 0.10
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 <=16 2100 0.13 zero <= 5333 0.34 zero <=
2
>16 <=25 2950 0.19 > <= > <=
3
>25 <=35 3500 0.22 > <= > <=
4
>35   4000 0.25 >   >  
8.8 Monthly water bill for a household consuming 6 m3 of water / month:
VND
US$
14100 0.89

Section 9. Finance

9.1 Water supply revenue of the company:
 
VND
US$
Water sales (consumption related & fixed charges)
35,354,760,000.00
2,242,041.98
Other water related revenue (e.g. materials sales, construction, etc.)
16,016,075,000.00
1,015,668.40
Subsidies and grants from Government & other sources
TOTAL
51,370,835,000.00
3,257,710.38
9.2 Year end Accounts Receivable:
VND
US$
3,387,599,000.00 214,826.50
9.3 Operating (recurrent) expenses of the company:
 
VND
US$
Water Supply Operating Expenses
28,851,166,775.00
1,829,612.96
Other services (e.g. drainage, wastewater)
Company Overhead (Corporate Expenses)
1,742,313,606.00
110,489.80
TOTAL
30,593,480,381.00
1,940,102.76
9.4 Water supply operating expenses of the company:
 
VND
US$
Labour Costs
7,129,744,982.00
452,136.79
Electricity
2,612,539,240.00
165,675.64
Chemicals & other Materials
842,596,284.00
53,433.72
Contracted out services
Other
20,674,880,506.00
1,311,109.17
TOTAL
31,259,761,012.00
1,982,355.32

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
  • Combination of annual budget fund & fund for national rural water supply target; other funds from provincial budget, organizations/authorities of relevant levels; in particular the financial contribution of the population
10.2 Gross fixed asset value including works in progress:
 
VND
US$
Water Supply Assets
122,196,728,043
7,749,174
Other services (e.g. drainage, wastewater)
Corporate Assets
13,637,079,358
864,803
TOTAL
135,833,807,401
8,613,977
10.3 Total debt servicing cost per year:
VND
US$
9,917,842,253 628,946

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