REGIONAL GOVERNOR OF ARARAT IS SURE THAT REGION WILL NOT HAVE PROBLEMS
WITH DRINKING WATER IN SOME YEARS

ARTASHAT, 24 MAY, NOYAN TAPAN. The supply of the irrigation water in
the village economy of the marz of Ararat does not run normally, In
many places the water-pipe streams have not been cleaned up. Almost
all the community heads of the marz mentioned about this during the
enlarged sitting of regional council held on May 24 in Ararat.

Considering this problem issue number one of the marz, Regional
Governor Alik Sargsyan ordered the regional heads and heads of water
user companies to improve the situation as soon as possible. At the
same time, the Governor informed that within the framework of the
Millennium Challenge program, 38 million US dollars are envisaged for
solving the irrigation problems and for road building in the marz of
Ararat. He assured that a few years later, the marz will have no
problems with drinking water. As the Noyan Tapan correspondent was
informed at the Regional Administration of Ararat, issues concerning
the sanitary situation in the dwelling places of the marz, street
cleaning and public regulation works carried out in communities, as
well as undertaking measures against bird flu, finding and curing sick
animals and birds were also discussed at the sitting. Introducing the
writ of execution of the 2005 budget of the communities of the marz,
Lernik Khachatrian, the head of the Financial Department of the
Regional Administration, informed that as compared to the previous
years, this year much more revenues were registered on the line of all
kinds of payments.
From: Baghdasarian