Head of Water Management Committee: do not worry about the quality of drinking water supplied to the population
ArmInfo. There is no problem with drinking water quality in Yerevan. Answering the question of ArmInfo, the chairman of the State Water Management Committee of Armenia Arsen Harutyunyan stated at the seminar on April 8. According to him, every month the department receives information from the Ministry of Health of Armenia regarding the quality of drinking water.
According to him, among the competitive requirements that were set for the future unified water supply and water supply operator, a number of conditions were set, the implementation of which the company had to provide for several years. Requirements, including those related to the continuity of water supply, water quality, as well as customer satisfaction with the process.
At present, the residents of Yerevan should not worry about the quality of drinking water supplied to the population. There are sites where there are some deviations from the requirements for the quality of drinking water, which are solved for several days by "Veolia Jur", he explained.
The head of the State Committee reminded that in 2017 the program of construction of a new wastewater treatment plant worth 11 million euros was completed. Currently, with a single water supply and wastewater operator, negotiations are under way with the company Veolia Jur, in order to transfer to her a new station in service. The cleaning station that operates today, as indicated by Harutyunyan, carries out mechanical cleaning of water, by passing the dirty water through the grid. The new one will allow to reduce the level of pollution of water entering the rivers. The next stage is in 2019-2020. in the Yerevan district of "Aeration" metatankers will be built, which will not only provide additional volumes of electricity by burning silt, but will also send cleaner water to irrigation systems. At the same time, about $ 6mln this year will be directed to the full restoration of water supply in the Yerevan neighborhoods of Silikyan and Haghtanak.
In addition, two new water purification stations will be built in Armenia in 2018 - one in Zartonk community of Armavir region, the second in Sevan city of Gegharkunik region. The design works have already been completed, the company - the developer will be selected based on the results of the competition. For today, as Arsen Harutyunyan pointed out, there are problems with the quality of drinking water in the Armavir region, where groundwater is used. To solve the problem with "Veolia Jur" it is planned to implement a program within the framework of which it is planned to supply water from the community of Nazrvan.
As for the cases when sewage water was mixed with irrigation water, as Harutyunyan noted, there are numerous facts indicating that land users themselves damage the pipes in order to provide themselves with additional water intake for irrigation.