Infrastructure Minister: all cities in Georgia to have 24-hour water supply by 2025
Water supply would be improved for an additional 585,000 beneficiaries at 182 locations across Georgia under the ongoing projects, with 200,000 of the citizens having never had access to round-the-clock supply before. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge
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Georgian Infrastructure Minister Irakli Karseladze announced on Thursday “all cities” of the country would enjoy 24-hour water supply by 2025, with the Government spending ₾9 billion (about $3bln/€2.80bln) for the task.
Karseladze said water supply would be improved for an additional 585,000 beneficiaries at 182 locations across Georgia under the ongoing projects, with 200,000 of the citizens having never had access to round-the-clock supply before.
The Minister announced four villages in the southeastern Gardabani municipality would receive 24-hour supply this month, while the project would continue in Dedoplistskaro, Telavi, Tetritskaro, Samtredia, Vani, Bagdati, Kazbegi, Stepantsminda and other areas of the country.
The Georgian Government will spend ₾32 billion (about $11bln/€10bln) over the next 10 years in developing infrastructure and raising living standards of citizens, Irakli Karseladze, the Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure, said on Wednesday.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and the Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure on Saturday visited infrastructure projects ongoing as part of the Renewed Regions state programme in Kareli, a city of central-eastern Georgia’s Shida Kartli region, the Government Administration said.
A total of 1,200 infrastructure projects worth ₾132 million (about $44.75m/€42.50m) are underway in western Georgia's Imereti region, the Ministry of Infrastructure has revealed.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili inspected rehabilitation works ongoing as part of the Renewed Regions state programme in western Georgia’s Lanchkhuti Municipality, the Government press office reported on Friday.
A new central square was unveiled on Saturday in Georgia’s western Lanchkhuti Municipality, located in the Guria region, within the framework of the Renewed Regions programme initiated by Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili.
The German state development bank KfW has allocated €55 million to support modern water infrastructure in Georgia's Black Sea city of Batumi, the German Embassy in Tbilisi announced on Tuesday.
Locals of three villages of eastern Georgia's Kakheti region will enjoy round-the-clock supply of clean water starting in the first half of this year thanks to a ₾7 million ($2.65mln) project being implemented in the locality, the United Water Supply Company of Georgia said on Tuesday.
Locals of three villages in eastern Georgia's Kakheti region will receive 24-hour water supply thanks to a ₾17 million ($6,428,346) project in the locality, the United Water Supply Company of Georgia said on Thursday.
The Georgian Government on Monday said it would hand 160 agricultural plots of land to 133 families affected by natural disasters in several municipalities, and had also approved the construction of the country’s largest thermal power plant in the south-western municipality of Gardabani.