More than 10,000 citizens in Iargara, Filipeni, Romanovca and Cupcui villages of Leova district will have access to high-quality drinking water thanks to a project financed by the European Union. The total cost of works is of over 91 million lei, about 10 million lei of which represents the beneficiaries’ contribution, IPN reports, with reference to the Ministry of Agriculture, Regional Development and Environment.

According to the Ministry, the project envisions the building of a water pipeline that will be 99 km long, of a drinking water pumping stations, of five water disinfection installations and the connection of 3,308 consumers to the water supply networks. The building works are performed within the investment project “Improving water supply services in Iargara, Filipeni, Romanovca and Cupcui villages of Leova district” that is implemented by the South Regional Development Agency in cooperation with the Modernization of Local Public Services in the Republic of Moldova Project.

On March 22, when World Water Day is celebrated, Iuliana Cantaragiu, deputy head of the National Environmental Center, in a news conference at IPN said the quality of the source of water depends on the pollution sources. As long as water supply systems were built without sewerage and wastewater treatment stations, a larger source of pollution was generated. Currently, 82.1% of the urban population and 38.7% of the rural population have access to water supply systems. Only 64% of the inhabitants of towns and 2.8% of the residents of villages have access to sewerage systems. During the last five years, water supply systems were built in many rural areas, but there are no sewerage systems there and this is not good. Also, many of the towns, not to mention the villages, do not have wastewater treatment stations or these stations are outdated.