EcoLur
Kapan Municipality had adopted a decision to pass drinking water supply and sewerage system under the administration of “ArmWaterCanal” CJSC free of charge for duration of 25 years. Nevertheless, any agreement hasn’t been signed. The active discussion of this issue was adopted by Kapan Municipality on 13 June. As “For Environmental Safety and Developing Democracy” Legal Consultant Arthur Ghazaryan told EcoLur, the organization was against this decision.
“We don’t trust ArmWaterCanal and that this company will manage it properly after getting the complete run of the water. So far ArmWaterCanal hasn’t performed the court ruling in cleaning sewerage and eliminating ecological disaster due to water pollution,” Ghazaryan said. There are concerns that ArmWaterCanal intends to get a loan in the amount of 6 million USD from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Asian Development Bank to reconstruct water supply and sewerage system. “We can see how EBRD loans are spent: the company will say it replaced the whole system, then it will start paying off the loan and getting super profits at our expense.” In the course of 9 years we got convinced that ArmWaterCanal doesn’t perform its duties and it’s impermissible to pass our water under its administration,” Ghazaryan said.
June 14, 2013 at 13:18