Seven Cities and Counties in the Seoul Metropolitan Area Call for "Improvement of Paldang Water System Regulations"…Nationwide Petition Campaign

Calls for Realistic Resident Support Funding
and Improvements to Overlapping Regulations

Seven cities and counties, along with local residents, included in the Paldang water system, which serves as a water source for the Seoul area, have launched a petition campaign urging the government to improve regulations.

On the 12th, at the Mohyeon-eup Administrative Welfare Center in Yongin, an official from the Special Measures Area Water Quality Conservation Policy Council explained to local residents the need to improve regulations on the Paldang water system during a residents' briefing session held by the council. Provided by Yongin City

According to Yongin City and other sources on September 19, seven local governments within the Han River water system and the Special Measures Area Water Quality Conservation Policy Council are conducting a petition campaign to improve regulations on the Paldang water system.

The local governments participating in the petition campaign are Yongin City, Gapyeong County, Gwangju City, Namyangju City, Yangpyeong County, Yeoju City, and Icheon City-a total of seven cities and counties.

In the case of Yongin City, a residents' briefing session was held on September 12 at the Mohyeon-eup Administrative Welfare Center for the heads of villages in Mohyeon-eup, Cheoin-gu, which is designated as Special Measures Area Zone 1. The session was organized to share information about the petition campaign for improving regulations, specifically to address the need to adjust the budget for resident support projects in the Paldang water system and to improve overlapping regulations.

At the briefing, the council explained the need to make resident support projects more realistic and to pursue reasonable regulatory improvements. The council plans to gather opinions from local governments near the Paldang water system and submit recommendations for regulatory improvements to the government by November.

At the session, Moon Seungjong, the residents' representative from Yongin City for the council, argued, "For the past 50 years, residents of the Paldang water system have quietly sacrificed to supply drinking water to the metropolitan area, and now the government has unilaterally cut the budget for resident support projects. This act undermines the agreement that was reached between the government and residents when the law was enacted."

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