The United Water Supply Company of the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia continues cooperation with the Water Supply Faculty of the Technical University.

According to company’s new initiative, a contest for the students has been announced on these topics:

1.      Water Supply improvement on the filter of Sharkhevi River in Dusheti.

2.      Technological improvement of main water building and water treatment facility and improvement of the quality of potable water in Bagdati.

3.      Methodology of water wastage extermination in Bolnisi.

During the contest, students will be able to visit mentioned places and get to know working process of the company, local water supply systems, existing problems and ways for solving them. They will be consulted by the projecting department of the company.

The jury composed of highly competent specialists will reveal three winners. These three students will be awarded with yearly grants and payment of their tuition fee.

The winners of the contest will also become interns at the training center of the company and as a result will be employed at United Water Supply Company of Georgia.

Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure and United Water Supply Company of Georgia are working in an emergency regime because of the bad weather conditions. Technical departments of all regional branches are  in control of situation for 24 hours a day, for the population of regions to be supplied with potable water without interruptions.

Tap water froze in several customers houses in Kakheti. Despite not being responsible for fixing individual water networks, company’s technical groups still provide help to customers. No problems have been detected on the main water building yet.

United Water Supply Company of Georgia asks customers to alert local service centers in case of water supply problems, for them to be sorted out quickly.

United Water Supply Company of Georgia of Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure held discussions on the project of environmental influence of investment program in Poti.

The aim of the project is construction of water treatment facilities of sewerage systems and main sewerage collector. Together with company’s representatives, local residents and representatives of Poti city hall attended discussions.

Project is financed by Asian Development Bank and is executed by United Water Supply Company of Georgia. Water treatment facilities of sewerage system will be projected according to German standards (DWA).

After its completion population of Poti will be supplied with high quality potable water without interruptions and also clearing of sewerage will take place.

Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure, Ramaz Nikolaishvili and Director of United Water Supply Company of Georgia, Irakli Kvashilava opened the new service centers of the company and the rehabilitated square in Kutaisi.

Mentioned center will serve customers and give them ability to get any kind of information about the condition of water supply systems in Kutaisi easily. Director of United Water Supply Company of Georgia, Irakli Kvashilava  also introduced one more informational center to the Minister, which is located in Avtokarkhana settlement and which has the exact same functions as the central service center.

According to the statement of Irakli Kvashilava, such service centers will be opened in different regions across the country. This will facilitate communication process between the company and population.  Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure, Ramaz Nikolaishili checked the quality of the service of the new center personally. On the territory of the branch in Kutaisi, square of modern standards has also been set up for the customers to wait their queue in a comfortable environment.

Today, managers of regions and service centers of United Water Supply Company of Georgia met with the director of the company, Irakli Kvashilava and First Deputy Minister of Regional Devalopment and Infrastructure, Jambul Bakuradze.

During the meeting current problems, ways of solving them and future plans were discussed. More specifically, talks were held about projects planned in 2012, like installment of electronic documents rotation and new technologies, construction of public toilets. Director of the company emphasized planned construction-rehabilitation works, which will improve water supply in regions significantly.

United Water Supply Company of Georgia has purchased a granular metric device on 11^th of January, 2012. It enables determining quantity and size of water inclusive particles.

Mentioned device will help the company in choosing exact sizes for water treatment plant filter and settler, which, in turn, will play role in perfecting projecting process and will significantly increase quality of potable water supplied to customers.

Today, director of United Water Supply Company of Georgia, Irakli Kvashilava introduced ongoing rehabilitation works on water supply systems in Marneuli to the Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure, Ramaz Nikolaishvili and Governor of Qvemo Qartli, Davit Kirkitadze.

Water supply issue in Marneuli has been an unsolved problem for many years. Before the start of the rehabilitation project nearly 35 thousand residents of Marneuli were supplied with water every other day for 4 hours.

Rehabilitation of water supply systems in Marneuli is being executed by United Water Supply Company of Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia and is financed by European investment Bank. According to the project one pump station had been built and another one is being built, draining systems are being set up at the headwater building and construction of 600 cubic meters reservoir is also underway.

After the completion of rehabilitation works, residents of Marneuli will be supplied with clean and safe potable water for 7-8 hours every day. During the project, under 30 people are employed, most of which are local residents.

Residents of Dusheti will be supplied with clean and filtered drinking water with improved schedule. Today, the Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia, Ramaz Nikolaishvili, President's Governor in Mtskheta-Mtianeti region, Tsezar Chocheli and the Director of United Water Supply Company of Georgia,  Irakli Kvashilava visited the results of rehabilitation works on water supply system in Dusheti and met with the local residents. The issue of water supply system was painful problem for years in Dusheti. Before the start of the rehabilitation works, residents of Dusheti were supplied with water for 2 hours three times a week. After finishing the rehabilitation works, the residents of Dusheti are supplied with clean and qualified drinking water daily for 5 hours. According to rehabilitation project on water supply system in Dusheti, 20 kms long water supply network has been changed. Full metering of the population has been executed. 3 pumps have been installed in the pump station of Jinvali. Pump aggregate has been changed in so-called "Sanakhshire" pump station and electric power system has been renewed which, in turn, provided a continuous supply of electric power and improvement of water supply.

Today, at the hotel "Radisson" the United Water Supply Company of the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia summarized the results of works implemented in water supply and sewerage systems during 2011. The Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure Mr. Ramaz Nikolaishvili led the event. The Director of the United Water Supply Company Mr. Irakli Kvashilava has presented for invited guests the result of the works implemented by the company during 2011 and the plans of 2012 in the form of presentation. Large-scale works have been carried out in 2011 by the United Water Supply Company of the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure in the area of water supply. The results of these works gave ability to the United Water Supply Company to improve water supply in the regions of Georgia. Several municipal centers of Georgia were provided by daily water supply, and some municipalities have uninterrupted water supply. Assimilation of the 500 million.USD allocated by the Asian Development Bank has been started. The sum will be spent for rehabilitation water supply and sewage systems of the 6 cities of Georgia: Kutaisi, Poti, Zugdidi, Anaklia, Mestia and Ureki. In parallel, under the auspices of the European Investment Bank, implementation of the works by the cost 40 million Euros have been started for non-stop water supply to 26 municipalities of Georgia. As about 2012, the coming year will be a turning year to improve water supply and for providing daily water supply for the regions of Georgia.

Detection and Elimination of the accidents on water supply systems will be possible more quickly. United Water Supply Company of the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia purchased 15 cars "Fiat”. Until now, the emergency groups of the United Water Supply Company did not have sufficient quantity of such equipment, that’s why to eradicate the failures was hampered. These cars will be delivered to all the regional branches. Through them, emergency groups will be able to eliminate the detected failures quickly and the quality of service of company will be improved significantly. The Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure Mr., Ramaz Nikolaishvili said that equipment of the United Water Supply Company by the modern technique is very important in order to achieve our goal daily water supply of the regions. 2012 Year will be a turning year in this point.