OREANDA-NEWS. October 03, 2014. The Environment Ministry and Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau (KfW) German government-owned development bank signed a Memorandum of understanding on expanding of the Chisinau-Straseni-Calarasi centralised aqueduct. Environment Minister Valentina Tapis and KfW representatives signed the document at a meeting in Chisinau, the Environment Ministry’s press service has reported.

In the memorandum, the sides set the tasks and stages that were to be carried out, in order to implement this project, identified as foremost in the National Strategy on drinking water supply and sanitation for 2014-2018. At the same time, during the last June Moldovan-German negotiations, the governments of Moldova and Germany described this programme as a priority of the bilateral cooperation.

Under the project, a feasibility study on aqueduct expanding will be worked out; afterwards the networks’ designing and construction to the settlements will follow. The unification of the water supply systems from Chisinau municipality, Straseni and Calarasi towns, with the gradual connection of about 20 villages along the aqueduct, is an infrastructure strategic element, in the context of regionalisation of municipal services.

The creation of a regional water supply system will provide the Straseni and Calarasi districts’ residents with access to drinking water, according to sanitary norms, as well as the improving of the quality of water and sewerage supply services.