From: Justin Burke (JBurke@sorosny.org)
Date: Wed May 24 2000 - 11:06:15 EDT
World Bank project helps Kazakh Aral Sea district, more in pipeline
Excerpts from report by the Kazakh news agency Interfax-Kazakhstan on 23rd
May
A number of water-supply projects and projects for providing the population
with quality drinking water have been successfully implemented in Kzyl-Orda
Region (southern Kazakhstan), the head of Kzyl-Orda Region Serikbay
Nurgisayev has told Interfax-Kazakhstan.
According to him, thanks to the building of a water supply system, which was
financed from a World Bank loan of 7.2m dollars, about 132,000 people in 15
settlements in Kazalinsk and Aralsk Districts will be supplied with quality
drinking water.
Nugisayev also noted that installing new filters at the water intake in
Kzyl-Orda (administrative center of Kzyl-Orda Region) had reduced
"considerably" cases of intestinal diseases, typhoid and hepatitis in the
town.
According to him, the gradual introduction of the new filter system will
continue at "each town and settlement" in the Region.
According to Nurgisayev's information, a project to clean the bed of
Syrdarya river and northern part of the Aral Sea will be implemented in
Kzyl-Orda Region soon. The overall cost of the project amounts to 67m
dollars. The funds will be allocated from a World Bank loan. Nurgisayev
said the project's feasibility study will be signed in October of this year
and financing is expected to start in 2001.
[passage to end omitted: the project is aimed at stopping water levels
falling in the Aral Sea; background on the Aral Sea]
Source: Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency, Almaty, in Russian 1410 gmt 23 May
00
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