ArmInfo.On April 17, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Tigran Khachatryan received Philippe Guitard, the Senior Executive Vice President of Central & Eastern Europe at Veolia Environnement. The meeting was also attended by Deputy Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure Vache Terteryan and General Director of Veolia Djur Marianna Shahinyan.
During the meeting, as the press service of the RA government reports, the interlocutors touched upon a number of issues of mutual interest. The discussion, in particular, was about improving the quality of water supply, reducing water losses, wastewater treatment and other issues related to drinking and irrigation water supply systems. Since January 1, 2017, the new single water operator - the French "Veolia Djur" (a subsidiary of the French Veolia Enviroment SA), took over the management of the property of five existing operators for a period of 15 years: "Yerevan-Jur", "Armvodokanal", "Shirak Vodokanal" ", "Lori Vodokanal" and "Nor Akunk". Earlier, the head of the Public Services Regulatory Commission, Garegin Baghramyan, reported that Veolia Djur leased the water supply system and has an obligation to annually invest 3.7 billion drams per year in the sector. The company increases the volume of annual investments to 4-5 billion drams. However, according to Baghramyan, this is a drop in the ocean, and investments are mainly directed to solving issues that require urgent solutions, for example, eliminating accidents.
