A filtering station will be built in Mariupol and a promising water supply scheme will be implemented. This will solve the problem of water supply of the city and stop subsidizing Gorvodakanal. The Mayor Vadim Boichenko told about this at the session of the City Council.
According to Sergey Koval, a Chief Engineer of Gorvodokanal public utility, the enterprise is currently unprofitable. The main reason is the cost of water. Influencing pricing is impossible. But the enterprise is being modernized which makes it possible to reduce the number of losses.
‘For six months of 2017, the losses amounted to UAH 23 million. For the same period of 2018, losses amounted to UAH 21.3 million. The decline is about 7.4%’, Sergey Koval said.
Another problem is water quality. Now it is taken from the Starokrymskiy reservoir but the water is too hard there.
For the implementation of the project, the city was allocated financial investments in the amount of EUR 46 million. Now Mariupol has only to receive state guarantees for the implementation of the project.
In addition, according to the Mayor, today the representatives of the European Investment Bank will visit Mariupol who will hold talks on the implementation of the project of a single water supply scheme for Mariupol.