Moldovan PM asks to identify optimum solution to supply with water all villages of Hancesti district

Chisinau, 21 October /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Ion Chicu today met at the government with local public authorities (APL) from the central Hancesti district, including ten mayors of the region, to consider the present stage of the carrying out of a project on the district’s supply with drinking water. The discussions were focused on identifying solutions to remove the technical obstacles faced, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.

„We have the project for the settlements from the Prut Meadow; we see progress in implementation and are sure that we will carry through those underway. Yet, the vision on the provision with water of the other settlements from the Hancesti district is not clear. The goal is to identify technical possibilities, in order to provide access to drinking water to all residents of the district,’’ the PM said.   

At present, the works within the current project, Construction of the water main for the settlements from the Prut meadow, are finished at a level of 85 per cent, worth 62.2 million lei in all. The entrepreneur has recently finished the assembling of the water pipe from the Nemteni village to the Cateleni village (8 km) and of a pipe from the Obileni village to the Bujor village (5.4 km). At the same time, competent authorities elaborated the technical documentation for extending the water pipe from the Bujor village to the Meresti village.  

The head of the Hancesti district council, Iurie Levinschii, said that a solution for the supply with drinking water of the settlements, which are not provided for in the project, is the extension of the regional water main Chisinau-Bardar (Ialoveni) to the Hancesti municipality, on a length of 18 km, giving possibility of connecting another ten villages (40,000 beneficiaries). The estimated cost of the project is about 48 million lei.   

At the meeting, the mayors presented the projects underway through diverse programmes and non-finished. As much as 80 per cent of the internal water supply networks and 50 per cent of the sewerage networks were constructed in the Stolniceni village, Hancesti district. There is a project on extending the aqueduct networks in the Sarata-Galbena village. Also, a regional project stipulating the supply of five villages was launched in the Hancesti city. Another project implies the building of sewerage networks in six settlements. The Hancesti city mayor stressed that this was an urgent need, as only 30 per cent of the district is supplied with sewerage networks.

„We have huge means buried in soil; yet, regretfully, they are not turned to account. We have situations when mayoralties apply to programmes, without taking into consideration the economic profitability. We should carry out a feasibility study of the project on connection to the aqueduct from the Ialoveni district. Let us consider also other solutions of water supply, such as the connection to surface waters, regionalization or connection of some villages to the aqueduct from the southern Leova district and we should have a comprehensive analysis,’’ the PM said.    

Most mayors backed the initiative of connection to the aqueduct from the Ialoveni district. The prime minister asked representatives of the Agriculture, Regional Development and Environment Ministry to start discussions on the subject with the Hancesti district council, mayors, engineers of the Ialoveni district, specialists of Moldova’s Waters Agency, in order to identify the best solution, so that the citizens benefit from drinking water as soon as possible.   

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