08 June 2004 10:56
Russian Far East moves to solve water shortages
The Maritime Territory authorities are intent on a radical solution to the problems of supplying Vladivostok with
water.
Experts are currently considering new trends in organizing water supplies in the south of the territory. There is a
project to build a water-collection station in Khasanskiy District that would be able to supply the south of the
territory with water and cheap electricity. At the same time, reconstruction of the city's dilapidated water-supply
systems will continue.
According to representatives of the Maritime Territory administration, an expert feasibility study is currently under
way in Moscow into developing subsurface water reservoirs in the Pushkinskaya depression, able to provide up to 400,000
cu.m. of water a day.
Let me remind you that in recent years Vladivostok has been suffering from an acute water shortage. A severe drought,
for example, resulted last year in the reservoirs that supply the territory's main city being completely exhausted.
For nine months, residents of the city were unable to quench their thirst, receiving water only for a few hours a day
and going without hot water altogether.
[Maritime Territory governor Sergey Darkin announced that hot and cold water restrictions in Vladivostok were at an
end on 7 June, according to ITAR-TASS news agency, Moscow, in Russian 0626 gmt 7 Jun 04. He outlined recent moves to
improve supplies, including construction of a new water intake and repairs of existing facilities, providing more than
200,000 additional cubic metres of water a day.]
[Radio Russia] |
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