EXHIBITIONS
The big clean up
Pipes are the arteries of the industrialised countries. They provide enterprises and private households with water and ensure disposal of their wastewater. If sewage pipes are missing or on the economic cycle. To prevent their systems from grinding to a halt, governments and enterprises therefore need to invest extremely large sums of money in repairing, renovating and replacing such pipes.
Take, for instance, St Petersburg where the supply situation is critical both for drinking water and for wastewater disposal. According to the foreign trade and marketing company Germany Trade and Invest (GTI), tap water in St Petersburg is substandard
T 28 IMT March 2016
here’s a lot to do for pipe manufacturers – and indeed everywhere, throughout the world.
because 40 per cent of the city’s 6,755-kilometre pipe network has been “worn to a frazzle”. In Western European cities, by contrast, the level of wear and everything it can to remedy this defect and modernise its network, so that it can eventually reach the
wastewater that is produced in this metropolis is actually cleaned. Dirty water still gets into the Neva and into other waterways,” says
www.internationalmetaltube.com
of the pipes are made of cast iron that needs to be stopped. From the natural water cycle must have of its sewage system, building new wastewater treatment plants and planning to install a completely
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