Narxoz Student Research-2021
achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in providing people with
safely managed drinking water.
More than a decade of insignifi cant capital investment, as well as
insuffi
cient maintenance and operation of networks and infrastructure,
has led to a signifi cant deterioration in networks’ performance. Service
interruptions have become the norm rather than the exception.
Case study allowed to reveal the following problems:
1. technical:
signifi cant deterioration and obsolescence of the water
and sewerage infrastructure;
lack of local waste water treatment system
for mandatory post-treatment of water supplied.
2. technological:
secondary pollution of drinking water due to
corrosion of steel pipes and mechanical damage;
high accidents rate on
water supply networks.
3.
fi
nancial:
underinvested and non-attractive-for-investment
infrastructure which does not stimulate water saving and provide a
stable basis for the reproduction of the water supply system.
The main directions of water supply development in small towns are
as follows: increasing the proportion of the population with access to
centralized water supply and water metering on distribution networks;
improving the quality of drinking water; reduction of normative and
excessive water losses; introduction of a transparent, cost-based pricing
system for water supply services, i.e. switching to tariff s that fully
reimburse the cost of services and create a tariff investment component
for all types of consumers.
Changes in the provision of drinking water to the population will
positively create satisfactory social and sanitary-epidemiological living
conditions and have a positive impact on health of local population that
are of great social, economic and environmental importance.
References
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“Water for life” 2005-2015. Water Scarcity. Available online: https://www.
un.org/waterforlifedecade/scarcity.shtml (accessed on 8 April, 2020)
2. Kabeer, N. “Leaving no one behind”: The challenge of intersecting
inequalities. In World Social Science Report: Challenging Inequalities,
Pathways to a Just World; UNESCO and The ISSC: Paris, France, 2016;
Volume 1, pp. 55–58.
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