Waste management infrastructure will be organized based on principle of regionalization

The waste management infrastructure in Moldova will be organized based on the principle of regionalization. The number of authorized waste dumps will be reduced significantly, to at most three dumps in one district, Minister of the Environment Gheorghe Salaru told a news conference, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to the minister, by one garbage dump could be authorized for a settlement until now. More than 50 million lei had been allocated from the National Ecological Fund between 2001 and 2009 for setting up waste dumps. Gheorghe Salaru said that in the future a waste dump will be for about 250,000 inhabitants. The current dumps will be replaced by waste collection centers with modern technologies that will enable to recycle, process and then store the waste that cannot be destroyed. A large-scale project to build a water pipe in Nisporeni district in 2013 started to be worked out in 2012. The project is worth over €11 million. There will be also designed five more water pipes: Chisinau – Straseni– Calarasi, Nistru – Rezina – Orhei, Prut – Cahul, Prut – Iargara – Cimislia, and Prut – Ungheni. Over 800,000 residents will be able to use the given water supply systems. Among the accomplishments of 2012 are the designing of four meteorological stations in Ceadir-Lunga, Leova, Costesti, and Soroca and the initiation of the construction of two of them, in Ceadir-Lunga, and Leova. There was built the tour for the meteorological radar that will be installed on the territory of the Chisinau International Airport in 2013. It will enable to forecast exceptional climatic conditions. As to the attraction of investments and the extension of international cooperation, Gheorghe Salaru said the there were signed new agreements and memorandums of cooperation in environment protection between states and the relevant institutions of Romania, Israel and Turkey. The agreement signed by the Government of Moldova and the Government of Ukraine, on cooperation in the area of protection and sustainable development of the Nistru Basin, is a pilot project to sustainably use the common rivers in the ex-Soviet area.