As many as 303 projects concerning water supply and sewerage, waste management and levee strengthening will be financed with money from the National Ecological Fund. The financing contracts approved by the fund’s administration board were signed by Minister of the Environment Valentina Tapis and the mayors who are beneficiaries of the projects on October 1, IPN reports.

The minister said that most of the projects refer to water supply and sewerage. Currently, 80% of the population from urban areas is connected to the aqueduct, while in villages this figure stands at 50%. The national water supply and sewerage strategy provides that the largest part of Moldova’s population will be connected to drinking water and sewerage in 2028.

Mayor of Hartopul Mare village of Criuleni district Dumitru Rosca said the local administration is implementing a water supply and sewerage project to the value of 22 million lei. “We plan to connect about 2,000 residents of the village to one source of drinking water. The water in our village is very dirty in all the wells and this problem will be removed when the centralized water supply system is built,” he stated.

The administrator of the state-run water management company “Nodul Hidroenergetic Costesti-Stanca” Vasile Cojocari refereed to a project to reinforce the left bank of the Costesti-Stanca reservoir to the value of 13 million lei. The last tranche of 3.6 million lei has been now allocated from the National Ecological Fund for finishing the works. The project is to be completed by this yearned.

A sum of 407 million lei was earmarked for implementing all the approved projects in 2014.