The Water Experience in Dianzi Li
翻譯: 徐瑞儀
Wen Fu Dai: “I’m the chief of Dianzi Li, captain of the volunteer water inspection team, with deputy captain Mr. Jin Chaun Li. We have to go up to the mountain and fix the water pipe every once in a while. We set off for the mountain to fix the pipes, the black pipe you see is the new one, it has been out of shape when the running water extended through this part, so we need to change the pipe. After that, the water can keep running through. From now on we’re going up the mountain and keep on searching, come over here, this rock just damaged the pipe, now we need to cut off a section then attach it. If we succeed, we keep on searching from here. You see, we came to the mountainside, slowly examined and repaired all the way, moving on when it’s fixed.
The bridge wasn’t built until this year, there’s a pit over here so it’s dangerous to walk through, we have to tie up a rope and walk down the pit, it gets better when we arrive at the bridge. Now we’re at the highest altitude of the water tank on the mountain, it’s about 10 tonnes, we have 5, 15, 30, 50, 100 tonnes of water tank, and so on, 20 of it in total. We’re moving on to the water source, to climb over this we need to pull out a rope and tie it up, otherwise it’s going to be really dangerous. We start to make the platform adit until we arrive at the water source, knock off the platform, water leaks from the side here. We got a pipe pulled inside, the net filters the filthy stuff, which makes the water cleaner inside, nothing filthy has passed through.
Ok, let’s make some tea and see if the water is fine. The water here is cool and sweet. To serve the villagers here, the water won’t be enough in July and August, so I’m going to supply water in divisional zones to the villagers, then switch every four hours. Some of the villagers are going to complain about the water cut off, so I’ll supply the water alternately, change the tapping place every four hours. As long as the water tank is full we’ll be fine. Some villagers will complain about the water shortage, I’ll walk them through deeply, the more we explain the more the villagers understand, and they get less angry about it. “
Jin Chaun Li: “The reason why our water is so clean, it’s all thanks to our chairman (Chief Dai), to pour his heart and soul, also thanks to our district hall, Sanzhi district hall, and also the New Taipei City cooperating with us, gave us the help we needed. Every place the district hall helped, thanks a lot.”