German government offers funds to ensure water supply in southern Moldovan district

Chisinau, 8 May /MOLDPRES/ - The German government has offered 2.6 million euros for a water supply project in southern Leova district. A Memorandum of Understanding to this effect was signed between the Regional Development and Construction Ministry, German International Cooperation Agency (GIZ), Regional Development Agency South (RDA South), Leova district council and Leova town hall today.

The project envisages the construction of 23 km of mainline aqueduct between the towns of Leova and Iargara. In the first stage of programme implementation, 12,000 inhabitants of the town and four neighbouring villages (Filipeni, Romanovca, Cupcui, Sarata Noua) will benefit from the necessary infrastructure. Subsequently, 30 localities with 50,000 people, accounting for 95 per cent of the district’s population, will have technical possibility to get connected to the mainline aqueduct. At the same time, the water treatment plant will be restored, and three water pumping stations and four reservoirs will be built and equipped.

Under the document, the project will be implemented by RDA South, the institution in charge of conducting public procurements, monitoring the works and transmitting the goods the local administration.

The project in Leova is part of the district’s social and economic development strategy, worked out with the support of GIZ and RDA South. The document includes a series of actions aimed at supplying all settlements of Leova district with high quality water from a single source - the Prut River.

(Reporter L. Grubii, Editor A. Raileanu)