For us to turn on a tap and have high-quality drinking water flowing through it is so trivial. Not in many parts of the world. In these places, Hungarian water industry innovations and developments mean a lot. One such company is Pureco, which was founded 15 years ago, is 100% Hungarian-owned, and its developments are mainly implemented in such underdeveloped regions besides Hungary, the Kossuth Radio editor said. It is a great thing that in places like Vietnam, where we have built a drinking water treatment plant and people can now drink piped drinking water, the development has also meant that people do not leave small rural towns and do not overburden the big cities. So, in addition to making clean water available, we have also contributed to the development of the countryside, Bálint Horváth, Managing Director, told to Kossuth Radio’s editor. This is the first development to provide piped drinking water that can be consumed directly from tap by residents. Unfortunately, in developing countries, even when wastewater is partially purified, it is still done with very outdated technology. In Ghana, wastewater treatment has consisted of discharging untreated wastewater at the edge of cities or directly into living water using sewage technology. In addition to the Kumasi plant, which has already been built with the technology developed by Pureco engineers and is making its debut here, our company is also building wastewater treatment plants in two other major cities, in Takoradi and Tamale which will improve the population resilience of the countryside while reducing the negative environmental impact," the CEO said, summing up the work currently underway. He added that the system has been running for 5 months and the wastewater technology is working excellently. The cooperation between the Ghanaian and Hungarian engineers still needs to be fine-tuned. The training of local experts is still ongoing, so that the plant can be run well without Hungarian experts in the future.
