Today Mariupol has been visited by a delegation led by the Ambassador of France to Ukraine Isabelle Dumont. During the visit, the Mayor Vadim Boichenko with the President of the French company Beten Ingenierie Jean Roche signed an agreement of intent to implement a project to improve the water supply in Mariupol. The document was another step towards solving the problem of a half-million city.
During the meeting, Vadim Boichenko told about the long-term cooperation of Mariupol with France. Ambassador Isabelle Dumont played a big role in this. He appreciated her for supporting the city and its inhabitants.
Her active position allowed Mariupol to establish relations with French partners. This served as a vector of qualitative changes in the issues of providing the city with modern transport, solving the centenary problem of water supply, building a European landfill for sorting and recycling solid household waste. According to the Mayor, Mariupol received ‘the effect of the French miracle’.
The Mayor stressed that the key role in this path is the solution to the problem of water supply. This is a guarantee that in the coming years, residents of the city will receive high-quality water supply.
Isabelle Dumont said that the desire to help Mariupol appeared four years ago - after the first visit to the city. Here she met the readiness of the city authorities to go ahead and meet the challenges of the times.
It is worth noting that in early 2019 a Framework Agreement was signed between the Government of the French Republic and the Government of Ukraine on the official support of the drinking water project in Mariupol. The agreement provides for the French government to allocate EUR 64 million in support of an investment project with the participation of Mariupol City Council. As part of the project, a full reboot of the ‘City Water Channel’ will take place, which will turn into a drinking water producer.
Today, during a visit to Mariupol, the French delegation has visited the Sea Commercial Port, where they discussed its problems and possible ways of their solutions, and the Starokrymsky Reservoir, where representatives of the ‘City Water Channel’ and the management of the Communal Enterprise ‘Company’ Water of Donbass’ discussed the issue of water purification.
