CONSTRUCTION OF DRINKING WATER PIPELINE FROM AVAN BOROUGH IN YEREVAN TO DOWNTOWN YEREVAN WILL BE FINISHED BY AUGUST

/ARKA/
April 16, 2010
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, April 16. /ARKA/. Construction of a drinking water pipeline
from Avan borough in Yerevan to downtown will be finished by August,
Gagik Ayvazian, head of a department of Yerevan Jur company said today.

He said the new gravity water pipeline will bring a higher quality
fresh drinking water to the central parts of the capital city and
will also result in substantial cut of electricity consumption.

He said at the proposal of the Yerevan municipality polyethylene tubes
are being laid along with water pipes that can be used in future for
laying optical fiber cables.

Construction of the 4.5 km water pipeline began on April 1. The
project’s cost is 263 million Drams, financed by a World Bank loan.

Yerevan Jur (Yerevan Water) is run by French Generale des Eaux that
won an international tender announced by World Bank to take up a
long-term management of the Yerevan network in 2006. It pledged to
upgrade the obsolete network and ensure 24-hour water supplies to
households. The company manages also drinking and waste water removal
systems in Ararat, Aragatsotn and Kotayk provinces.

Yerevan Jur has 339,370 customers producing 370 million cubic meters
of drinking water a year and managing 2,120 lm long water pipelines.