Government of the Republic of Moldova Resolution No
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GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA RESOLUTION NO. 442 of 1 July 2020 Chisinau Regarding Amendments to Government Resolution No. 199/2014 on Approval of the Water Supply and Sanitation Strategy (2014-2028) The Government RESOLVES TO: 1. Amend Government Resolution No. 199/2014 on Approval of the Water Supply and Sanitation Strategy (2014-2028) (Official Monitor of the Republic of Moldova, 2014, Issue 72-77, Article 222), as amended, as follows: 1) Replace “(2014-2028)” with “(2014-2030)” in the title of the Resolution, in the heading and throughout the text of Attachment No. 1; 2) Add the following paragraph 11 to the Resolution: “11. Approve the Action Plan for 2020-2024 to Implement the Water Supply and Sanitation Strategy (2014-2030) as per Attachment No. 11.”; 3) In Attachment No. 1: a) Throughout the text: Replace “(2014-2028)” with “(2014-2030)”; Replace “the State Environmental Inspectorate” in any grammatical form with “the Environmental Protection Inspectorate” in the relevant grammatical form; Take out “the Ministry of Education”; Take out “the Inter-Ministerial Steering Group for the Strategy implementation” and “the Steering Group” in any grammatical form; Replace “water use” in any grammatical form with “water supply” in the relevant grammatical form; b) In the Introduction: In the fourth paragraph, take out “deems it timely to develop medium-term (2014-2018) and long-term (until 2028) strategy for the sector” and replace “and thereby facilitates” with “facilitates”; Define the term “sanitation” as follows: “Sanitation is a set of public services and activities to ensure sanitary, epidemiological, hygienic, and environmental security: (a) Collection, transportation, and treatment of domestic wastewater, faecal wastewater (containing human excreta) and stormwater; and 2 (b) Disposal and treatment of sludge from toilets, septic tanks, and public wastewater treatment plants to reduce chemical and microbial contamination and maintain healthy and sustainable environment”; c) In Chapter I: In paragraph 1: Take out “Government Resolution No. 662 of 13 June 2007 to Approve the Water Supply and Sanitation Strategy for Settlements in the Republic of Moldova aims to improve the legal and institutional framework of the Republic of Moldova in line with the EU directives so that the population could benefit from new services of new, European quality”; In paragraph 2: Replace “The National Energy Regulatory Agency (NERA) developed a methodology for setting, approval, and application of tariffs for public water supply, sanitation, and wastewater treatment services” with “The National Energy Regulatory Agency (NERA) developed a methodology for setting, approval, and application of tariffs for public water supply, sanitation, and wastewater treatment services” [translator’s note — the amendment in relation to the term sanitation concerns Romanian and Russian languages only]; Replace “The key role of the State Environmental Inspectorate in the area of water supply and sanitation is to issue special water use and wastewater discharge permits and conduct environmental impact assessments. The Inspectorate is subordinated to the Ministry of Agriculture, Regional Development, and Environment.” with “The goal of the Environmental Protection Inspectorate is to implement the state environmental and natural resources management policy, exercise state control and supervision, and prevent and counter violations within its purview; Add the following paragraph after the tenth paragraph: “The Environmental Protection Agency is an administrative body within the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Agriculture, Regional Development, and Environment responsible for the implementation of the state policy in the areas it has been charged with, while achieving the best expected performance for budget allocations.”; Add the following text to paragraph 4: “The number of water supply systems increased by six in 2018 on a year-on-year basis. Thus, there were 1,220 water supply systems across the country in 2018. Out of the total number of water supply systems, 1,168 systems, or 95.7 percent, were operational and eleven water supply systems, of which ten in rural areas, were rehabilitated during the year. 3 Figure 9. Water Supply Systems Development Trend, 2014–2018 Number of systems Total number of water supply systems Number of operational water supply systems Percentage of operational water supply systems Work has been carried out annually to rehabilitate, retrofit, and expand the water supply systems. In 2018, total length of the water supply systems and distribution networks increased by 400 km to 14,400 km. 67.7 km of the networks were rehabilitated and 305.6 km of new networks were built. Given that not all the water supply systems have been operational, 14,200 km (98.6 percent) of the water supply networks were actually operated in 2018. Residential users serviced by water supply systems. At present, water supply systems are available in 53 municipalities and towns and 721 settlements, which make up 50.5 percent of settlements in the country. About 51.2 percent of Moldovan villages have no access to a drinking water supply network and many of the existing systems have deteriorated. The City of Chisinau and ATU Gagauzia ATU have the largest shares of settlements with access to a water supply system (85.7 percent and 78.1 percent, respectively). Access in the settlements in the Northern region is the lowest (35.3 percent). Figure 10. Settlements Serviced by Water Supply Systems by Region, 2018 Total City of Chisinau ATU Gagauzia Southern region Central Northern region region In 2018, about 2.1 mln people in the country, or 60.6 percent of the total population, used water supply services. The largest share of residential users serviced by the water supply systems was recorded in the city of Chisinau (88.1 percent) and ATU Gagauzia (78.4 percent), followed by the Southern region (64.4 percent), Central region (49.7 percent), and Northern region (43.9 percent). 4 Figure 11. Residential Users Serviced by Water Supply Systems by Region, 2018 Total City of Chisinau ATU Gagauzia Southern region Central Northern region region Number of people connected to water supply services increased by about 242,400 consumers over the past three years. Water intake and distribution. Water intake amounted to 131.2 mln m3 in 2018, of which from surface sources, 87.9 mln m3 (67.0 percent), from underground sources, 30.5 mln m3 (23.2 percent), and from other sources, 12.7 mln m3 (9.7 percent). At the same time, water distributed to consumers amounted to 89.0 mln m3, up by 2.6 mln m3 compared to 2017. The difference was due to water used by the water intake facilities for their own needs and water losses during transportation. Table 3. Water Distribution Network and Amounts, 2014-2018 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Number of settlements with access 480 689 695 761 774 to water supply systems Total length of drinking water 10,483.7 12,756.4 13,385.0 14,044.6 14,411.8 supply network, in kilometres, of which: Urban settlements 4,442.2 4,696.0 4,666.0 4,618.8 4,662.9 Rural settlements 6,041.5 8,060.4 8,719.0 9,425.8 9,748.9 Water distributed to consumers, in 74.3 79.5 84.8 86.4 89.0 millions of cubic meters, of which: Urban settlements 62.8 63.4 67.2 68.4 70.4 Rural settlements 11.5 16.1 17.6 18.0 18.6 Of which water supplied to 53.2 57.3 60.0 59.9 61.8 residential users, in millions of cubic meters, of which: Urban settlements 43.0 43.1 44.2 43.9 44.9 Rural settlements 10.2 14.2 15.8 16.0 16.9 Average water supply per capita per year is 17.4 m3. Water supply per person by region has been the largest in: the city of Chisinau — 41.5 m3; Southern region — 11.1 m3; ATU Gagauzia — 11.0 m3; Central region — 10.5 m3; and Northern region — 8.9 m3. Residential users account for 61.8 mln m3, or 69.4 percent of the total water supply; budget institutions, 4.9 percent; and other consumers and economic entities, 25.7 percent. The amount of water supplied to residential users increased by 3.2 percent on a year-on- year basis. 5 Figure 12. Water Supply by Consumer Type, 2018 Residential users Budget institutions Other consumers In 2018, 24,400 accidents related to damaged water supply networks were recorded, 10,700 fewer than in 2017. Metered water consumption by individual end-users accounted for 85.1 percent at the country level with the highest levels in the Southern and Central regions at 96.2 percent and 92.7 percent, respectively. Centralised sanitation systems1. In 2018, wastewater collection from households, economic entities, and social facilities was in place in 53 municipalities and towns and 73 villages. Just 126 water supply systems (10.3 percent of the total number) were equipped with sanitation systems, of which 110 were operational. Eighty-four sanitation systems are connected to wastewater treatment plants, of which 73 are operational. The situation with availability of wastewater treatment plants by region has been the best in ATU Gagauzia and Southern region. There are no wastewater treatment plants in Glodeni and Soroca regions. Figure 13. Sanitation Systems Development Trend, 2014–2018 Number of systems Total number of sanitation systems Number of operational sanitation systems Percentage of operational sanitation systems Total length of the sanitation networks was 2,900 km, of which 2,800 km (96.6 percent) were actually operated. Total length of the sanitation network decreased by 1.7 km on a year-on-year basis. 16.2 km of the sanitation networks were rehabilitated and 71.3 km of the sanitation networks were built over the year.