President Park Jae-hyeon of Korea Water Resources Corp. (K-water) (Photos: K-water)

A consortium, led by Korea Water Resources Corp. (K-water), landed a 200 billion won metropolitan tap water project in Indonesia. It is the first time Korean metropolitan waterworks technology will be exported.

The Ministry of Environment said on Jan. 5 that a consortium, led by K-water, was selected as the final bidder of the Karian metropolitan city tap water supply project in Indonesia.

The project calls for supplying about 400,000 tons of tap water from Karian Dam to the state of Jakarta, Tangerang City and South Tangerang City daily.

It will be capable of catering to about 2 million people, an equivalent to the Cheongju purification plant’s supplying water. The planned metropolitan water works will be dedicated later this year.

K-water proposed the project to the Indonesian government following the Korean-Indonesian summit, held in November 2017.

The project is a public-private partnership in which K-water, a water management public entity, proposes and wins it, based on collaboration of Korean and Indonesian governments along with Korean companies participating in design and construction.

A diagram of the Karian metropolitan city tap water supply project in Indonesia.

K-water to Front-Load 75 Percent of 2021 Budget

K-water plans to place orders worth a combined 1.9 trillion won for this year. Orders worth 1.425.5 trillion won, accounting for 75.73 percent of the total budget for this year will be front-loaded in the first half of the year to overcome a crisis, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

K-water Vows to be ‘World’s Top-Tier Entity of Water Welfare & Water Safety’

K-water President Park Jae-hyeon said the year 2021 is a first year of efforts to elevate Korea to the world’s top-tier country of water welfare and water safety.

In his New Year’s message on Jan. 4, President Park said, “The Year 2020 was one year in which climate crisis had turned into reality and we felt a heavy of responsibility for water disaster, and preparations for a water management paradigm shift were made for the new normal era.”

President Park revealed four core management tasks to shift into climate change management paradigm with a tempo quicker one step and a strong execution, ensure sustainable growth and make water management achievements the way people can sense and in an innovative fashion.