Armenia`s Deputy PM, Veolia Vice President discuss problems with  water supply to consumers 

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.