Some rural sewage treatment stations have been built but never used, and can be said to be just for show. Is this approach correct? Of course it’s not right! The relevant departments require the construction of sewage treatment stations with the aim of treating rural sewage, conducting online monitoring, and then discharging it to ensure the safety of water quality. If you merely put it on display, it goes against the “original intention”.
Untreated sewage is directly discharged into rivers and streams, garbage floats in the rivers and streams, and water from self-built toilets is also discharged. However, some rural areas have built sewage treatment stations but they are just for show. They have not conducted online sewage monitoring to observe whether the water quality meets the discharge standards. At the sudden inspection meeting by the leaders of the relevant departments, it was found that the facilities were in disrepair for a long time, not to mention the daily maintenance. Although the current crackdown is very strict, there are still some fish caught. These “caught fish” must be taken seriously!
If the rural sewage treatment station can operate normally, it can conduct real-time monitoring of various indicators in the discharged sewage, ensuring that all indicators in the water are discharged up to standard, and can further improve the rural environment. With the improvement of people’s living standards, government departments at all levels in our country have attached great importance to the construction of rural sewage treatment facilities online and have invested a large amount of human and material resources to complete these projects. However, there still exists a situation where “construction is emphasized while management is neglected”, which not only leads to waste of investment but also directly affects the work of rural sewage treatment. Therefore, while doing a good job in construction, the management of sewage treatment stations should also be given due attention. Without good management, even if the construction is excellent, its effectiveness will be reduced.
How can the Maintenance Work of Rural Water Treatment Stations be Strengthened? You can Start from the Following Points!
1.The issue of establishing a guarantee mechanism for the operation and maintenance of rural sewage treatment facilities. Budget issues are an important reason why many rural sewage treatment facilities are difficult to operate normally. Therefore, for this issue, the relevant local staff need to collect sewage treatment fees in accordance with the law and provide appropriate financial subsidies, and then formulate and implement various policies for the operation and management of sewage treatment facilities. For instance, in the power sector, preferential prices are offered for sewage treatment project sites, etc., to ensure that the online monitoring work for rural domestic sewage treatment can proceed normally and stably.
2.Take the initiative to purchase and implement environmental services related to the government, from which a quantified basis for the effect of water environment governance can be obtained. The sewage treatment facilities at the town level can be bundled up on a county basis and then entrusted to a third-party unit for maintenance and management. At the same time, it is necessary to further strengthen the intelligent and information-based construction of rural domestic sewage treatment, and improve the online monitoring and management of rural domestic sewage treatment.
3.Establish a sound inspection and assessment system for rural sewage. For the sewage treatment facilities at the town level and their subsequent maintenance, regular or irregular inspections, clean-ups and corrections of any problems that arise should be carried out. It is also necessary to incorporate the key points of new project construction and the subsequent management and maintenance of projects put into use into the performance assessment work of superiors for subordinates. This can provide institutional guarantees.
Overall, the construction, operation, supervision and maintenance of rural sewage treatment sites directly involve multiple aspects such as the ecological environment and agriculture and rural areas. Therefore, it is necessary to do a good job in the online monitoring of rural sewage treatment and make it operate effectively, so as to ensure the beauty of the rural environment and people’s health.
Of course, rural sewage monitoring is only a part of water environmental protection. Water quality monitoring covers many fields, such as online monitoring of surface water, groundwater monitoring, monitoring of drinking water, industrial process water monitoring, online monitoring of medical wastewater, and online monitoring of urban sewage.
