Water supply national project to build pipes in 57 localities

50 villages and 7 towns will have running water as a National Plan envisages to build grids there. The project was launched on January 29 after a pilot-project in 5 towns, Info-Prim Neo reports. The project was inked by Moldova and the International Development Association on June 2, 2008. Moldova will get a loan of $14 million, said Aurelia Samson, a manager in the national water supply and drainage project. The localities were selected by criteria established by the World Bank (WB) and the Moldovan Government. The 7 towns are Balti, Cahul, Causeni, Floresti, Orhei, Soroca and Ungheni. “After the success of the pilot-project, now we pass to implementing the national project,” said Takao Ikegami, a WB representative and head for the water sector in Moldova. The project envisages to build and repair water supply and sewage grids in towns. In villages, it provides for rehabilitating wells, aqueducts, supplying social institutions and implementing health and sanitation education programs. The project also envisages to help water supplying plant to use less power, to process the sewage water and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In 2003, the World Bank gave a loan to the International Development Association for the pilot-project, amounting to $12 million and run in Cahul, Balti, Orhei, Soroca and Stefan Voda.