A Water Museum will be set up inside the Water Tower of Chisinau. SA “Apa-Canal Chisinau” (ACC) said the financing will be provided by the Government of Romania and the investment was estimated at about €1 million, IPN reports.

According to the water supplier, a similar museum will be simultaneously opened in Tulcea town of Romania in connection with the centenary year. “We plan to open a Water Museum in the Water Tower of Chisinau. This will be a generalist museum that will house different installations and units of equipment, photographs and historical documents of the water supplier at different stages. The goal is to raise the visitors’ awareness of the water resources, their saving and the need to permanently implement modern technologies for treating drinking water in conditions of safety. We also speak about the treatment of wastewater and methods of rational use of water,” stated ACC director general Veronica Herta.

The water supplier said the Water Tower, which is also called the Museum of Chisinau City, was built in 1892 according to a project designed by the famous architect Alexandru Bernardazzi, on the highest point of the old town. The name “Water Tower” was given because the building housed first the drinking water supplier of Chisinau. When the tower was built, the first sewer pipe appeared in Chisinau, during the time of Mayor Carol Schmidt.

The Water Museum in Chisinau will be laid out by the model of other museums of the kind.