MOSCOW, January 26. /TASS/. The Arkhangelsk Region needs about 2.2 billion rubles ($32 million) to implement nine initiatives under the Clean Water federal project, the region's First Deputy Governor Alexey Alsufyev told the Federation Council's meeting devoted to the Arkhangelsk Region's development.
"We still have nine projects, which lack financial resources <…>, those are 55,000 people," he said. "We need the financial resources of 2.2 billion rubles to meet all the goals of the Clean Water federal project."
The region plans to implement 24 projects, he continued. "We have analyzed and eyed all the necessary initiatives, and the conclusion is that we need <…> to build drinking water supply facilities for 103,000 people. <…> Over 2020-2023, have grown prices on building resources, materials, thus nowadays, the money which had been allocated to the region to implement the Clean Water project can be sufficient only to implement just 15 initiatives," he said.
According to the official, almost 75% of the region's water supply networks are worn out, and the share of the population which receives high-quality drinking water from centralized water supply systems is 62%.
The region plans to reconstruct a total of 168 sewage treatment plants at a total cost of 28.5 billion rubles ($410 million), he added. "By the end of this year, 16 facilities with <…> the funding of 6.4 billion rubles ($92 million) will undergo expert licensing," he said.
The Clean Water federal project's key objective is to increase the share of the Russian population that has access to high-quality drinking water from centralized water supply systems. Earlier, the project was a part of the Ecology national project, and since 2021 it has been included into the Housing and Urban Environment national project. By 2024, thanks to the project's implementation, 88.8% of the country's citizens should be provided with high-quality drinking water from centralized water supply systems. In cities, this indicator should reach 97.2%.