YEREVAN RESIDENTS ENJOY 17-HOUR WATER SUPPLY

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
June 27 2007

YEREVAN, June 27. /ARKA/. Yerevan residents are provided with 17-hour
water supply, on average, Yerevan Jur General Director Serhe Popoff
said on Wednesday.

In his words, some districts’ residents enjoy only four-hour supply,
but there are also districts with round-the-clock water supply.

He said only one district’s residents have water only 2.5 hours a day,
but this may be caused by breakdown.

Popoff said that the city’s northern districts are provided with
water properly.

He said the things are worth in Erebuni and Saritag.

The company decided after the study to increase water supply in
Yerevan to 23 hours a day within one decade.

The study embraced 308137 consumers, 70 of which enjoy round-the-clock
water supply.

Yerevan Jur, a resident company, was established by Generale des
Eaux. This French company won tender announced by World Bank in 2005
for Yerevan Vodocanal handover.

The French company is to allocate $20 million for water supply system
repair under WB credit program for ten years of its administration.

EUR 17.6mln will allocated from receipts after approving consumer
prices for water and another EUR 6.4 million will be own investments.