Turn on the tap and you can drink healthy and safe drinking water at any time. This is a trivial matter in the city, but it is not easy on the Qinghai Tibet line. Recently, the “three rivers · Qinyuan action” jointly launched by China Environmental Protection Foundation and Unilever’s water purification brand Qinyuan donated water purification equipment to the green post station of Green River, a well-known non-governmental environmental protection organization, to help site staff and volunteers drink safe and clean drinking water at any time. In July 2021, all equipment successfully settled in nine workstations along the Qinghai Tibet line organized by green rivers such as Qinghai Tibet green post station, Yangtze River source water ecological environment protection station, Yangtze River No. 1 post office and Bande Lake wildlife observation station. After that, scientific researchers, environmental protection workers and tourists working in the post station can enjoy safe drinking water at any time. This is also the original intention of Sanjiangyuan · Qinyuan action, with a firm mission and professional technology to contribute to supporting the ecological environment construction in Sanjiangyuan area.

Volunteers carry out garbage collection in Sanjiangyuan

Environmental protection workers of Sanjiangyuan

Qinghai Tibet green post station is a plateau public welfare station jointly built by Qinghai provincial government and green river organization and jointly participated by China Environmental Protection Foundation. The six green post stations on the Qinghai Tibet line not only build garbage recycling stations along the Qinghai Tibet highway to help solve the garbage removal and transportation of the Qinghai Tibet line and its surrounding areas, but also provide a short rest place for long-distance transportation drivers and tourists on the Qinghai Tibet line. More importantly, over the years, with the continuous expansion of the influence of Green River organization, the green post station has also become an important site for ecological and environmental protection and public welfare publicity on the Qinghai Tibet line, and a window for the outside world to understand local environmentalists and environmental protection work.

Moreover, in the small town at the source of the Yangtze River at an altitude of about 4500 meters, the Green River organization also operates three environmental protection stations to protect the ecological environment in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. Among them, the Yangtze River source water ecological environment protection station is a place where staff and volunteers carry out important work such as waste investigation, hydrological monitoring and environmental protection concept publicity. In the Yangtze River source water ecological environment protection station, volunteers have continued to carry out the action of “taking away a bag of waste” for nearly ten years to help reduce waste pollution in water sources and support resource recycling and reuse. Bande lake, 30 kilometers away from the town, is a station specially set up for the observation and protection of spotted headed geese, which undertakes the important responsibility of protecting habitat and conducting biodiversity survey.

Volunteers sort and pack the garbage

Every year, nearly 100000 people work and investigate at the nine sites organized by green river, as well as tourists and drivers passing by the sites. In order to ensure the drinking water health of the “environmental protection guards” working at the plateau sites, Qinyuan brand, the initiator of Sanjiangyuan Qinyuan action, has equipped the nine sites with professional water purification equipment through the action to support them to better carry out ecological and environmental protection and monitoring.

“It is a long way to go to protect the ecological environment in the source areas of the three rivers. The workers of the Green River organization carry out environmental protection work on the plateau all year round, guard the water source of China and the water tower of Asia, and guard the land with their own little actions and continuous efforts. However, their working conditions are very difficult, and sometimes they will encounter problems in daily drinking water.” Pan Shiyang, the representative of the initiator of Sanjiangyuan Qinyuan action and the general manager of Unilever water and air health element category in China, said, “this time, Sanjiangyuan Qinyuan action donated water purification equipment to the work site of Green River organization. We also hope that through our action, we can improve the drinking water health of more local people and purify the environmental protection workers in Sanjiangyuan area.”

Focus on pure Qinyuan and guard the future with profession

In order to smoothly and timely solve the drinking water health problems for the staff of the green river site, the professional technical team of Sanjiangyuan Qinyuan action and the water purification equipment experts from Qinyuan brand designed the water purification equipment for the plateau site. Since the end of May, the experts of the project team have maintained communication with President Yang Xin of the Green River organization, investigated the actual situation and problems of drinking water at each station, and designed and configured water purification equipment suitable for the plateau environment by monitoring the boiling point of drinking water at different altitudes at each station. After more than a month of scheme research and production test, the water purification equipment was officially transported to Golmud post station in Qinghai in early July, and then transported to other post stations in the hinterland of Sanjiangyuan.

“Since its establishment, the green post station has provided support and help for drivers and tourists on the Qinghai Tibet line, as well as local ecological environment monitoring and protection, and wildlife protection and rescue. Although it is the source of the three rivers, the healthy drinking water in the station has been a problem that needs to be improved for many years.” Yang Xin, the founder and President of the Green River organization, said, “Sanjiangyuan Qinyuan action has donated US professional water purification equipment with regular sterilization, automatic flushing of filter elements and adaptation to high-altitude environment. This can not only meet the healthy drinking water needs of staff in the station, but also provide great convenience for drivers and tourists.”

Qinyuan service team carried out the installation and commissioning of water purification equipment at Golmud post station

The nine water purifier stations in Qinjiang water purification park can adapt to the environment at high altitude. The direct drinking equipment with three-level fine filtration is equipped with 100 gallon RO membrane, etc module composite filter element and 5L hot bladder, and has the functions of dry burning prevention, water leakage prevention and fault early warning. The water purification and heating are safer and more efficient. Considering the local core demand for sterilization of drinking water, UV sterilization of clean water tank is adopted to realize dual protection. Moreover, in order to make effective use of the acquisition of solar power on the plateau, the equipment adopts intelligent energy-saving settings, which can save electricity and work for a long time with high efficiency.

The green water purifier is installed in the Qingzang post station

In 2021, Unilever Qinyuan brand joined hands with China Environmental Protection Foundation to promote the construction of ecological environment in the source area of three rivers and protect the ecological environment of water sources, while committed to improving the drinking water health of local residents. As a brand of Unilever that focuses on providing clean drinking water products and solutions, Qinyuan has focused on water purification for more than 20 years, has hundreds of patented technologies at home and abroad, and is committed to improving healthy drinking water conditions for tens of millions of Chinese families. In the future, Qinyuan brand will continue to join hands with China Environmental Protection Foundation, green river organization, etc