Osaka, nameless donor offers 21 kilos of gold to the Water Works Office: “Redo the pipes” | EUROtoday

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Osaka acquired a big donation of gold bars of the worth of 560 million yen (circa 2.85 – 2.90 million euros) sure one nameless donor which requires its particular use: repairing the Japanese metropolis’s crumbling water pipes.

The gold bars, for a complete weight of 21 kilogramshave been donated to the Osaka City Waterworks Bureau in November by a donor who desires to assist enhance the previous water pipes, the mayor of the Japanese metropolis Hideyuki Yokoyama.

“It’s a staggering amount and I was speechless,” Yokoyama stated. «Tackling the issue of previous water pipes requires an enormous funding and I can solely thank him for the donation». The mayor said that his metropolis will respect the donor’s needs and can use the donation to enhance water tasks.

Concern in regards to the security of Osaka’s water programs has grown after alarge chasm swallowed a truck and killed its driver final 12 months. Osaka recorded 92 instances of water leaks from pipes underneath metropolis streets within the fiscal 12 months ending March 2025, the town’s waterworks official Eiji Kotani stated.

With a inhabitants of 2.8 million inhabitantsOsaka is the third largest metropolis within the nation and serves because the capital of western Japan. Most of Japan’s main public infrastructure was constructed throughout speedy post-war financial development.