The administration of SA Apa-Canal Chisinau is negotiating financing of €62.8 million loan with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), €13.8 million of which is a grant. The money will be used to improve the quality of water supplied to consumers and to reduce the risks of interrupting the supply of water in exceptional conditions, IPN reports.

In a communiqué, the Chisinau water supplier says the loan will be taken out within the program for water supply and wastewater treatment in the municipality of Chisinau. The first tranche will go to modernize the Wastewater Treatment Station and the Water Treatment Station and to produce sodium hypochlorite directly at the stations so as to reduce the costs and increase the quality of the disinfectant.

About 100,000 cubic meters of water tanks will be rehabilitated. There will be set up new installations for treating freatic waters extracted from artesian wells. More than 3,000 branch pipes in apartment buildings, built in the 1960-1980. will be replaced.

The investments will enable to reduce the water losses by 30%, which will help save 50 million lei a year. The number of leakages will be halved. There will be rehabilitated and built 62 wells and adopted the water distribution system for emergencies.