In Tatarstan, 93.6% of the population is provided with quality drinking water

In Tatarstan, as of the end of 2020, 93.58% of the population is provided with high-quality drinking water from the centralized water supply system. This was announced by the head of the Department of Housing and Communal Services of the Ministry of Construction, Architecture,Housing and Communal Services of the Republic of Tatarstan Airat Gallyamov at a meeting of the Committee of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan on housing policy and infrastructure development. “Based on the results of assessing the state of the sources of centralized water supply, 20.1% do not meet sanitary requirements. They are all underground, - said the speaker. “With regard to the provision of high-quality drinking water in the context of municipalities, the situation is as follows: the indicator is higher than the national average in 18 districts, and in 28 districts it is lower.”
Gallyamov noted that 88 municipal organizations provide water supply services in the republic. The length of water supply networks is 18.6 thousand km, the degree of wear of which, according to Tatarstanstat, has reached 54%. 5930 km of networks, or 31.9%, are to be replaced.
The head of the department emphasized that the high deterioration of utilities leads to accidents. So, since the beginning of this year, 2,748 accidents have occurred in the housing and utilities sector. As the analysis has shown, the largest number of accidents occurs in the field of cold water supply - 2227 cases, or 81% of their total number. “The difficult financial and economic condition of public utilities does not allow them to renew their fixed assets on a large scale and at the proper level. At the end of the second quarter of 2021, 24% of organizations in the housing and communal complex are unprofitable. There are 24,699 communal infrastructure facilities in the republic, of which only 55.6% are registered in-state or municipal ownership. The rest 44.4% are not registered and require transfer,” — he said. He added that in order to restore and improve communal facilities, a republican program is being implemented to provide the population with drinking water in settlements. The volume of its financing for 2010–2020 amounted to 7.1 billion rubles. 2697.7 km of the water supply network, 410 water towers, 403 artesian wells were built and reconstructed.

This year, under the program, measures have been implemented in 45 municipalities on 129 facilities with a funding volume of 650 million rubles. To date, all work has been completed, including the construction and reconstruction of 149.5 km of the water supply network, 25 artesian wells drilled, 21 water towers and 19 fences of sanitary protection zones installed. In addition, since 2019, the federal project "Clean Water" of the national project "Housing and Urban Environment" is being implemented in Tatarstan. Its goal is to bring the share of the population provided with quality drinking water from centralized water supply systems to 93.8% by 2024. Funding for the program is over 1 billion rubles. There are 3260 water supply sources in Tatarstan, including 10 surfaces (rivers, lakes, ponds, reservoirs, canals) and 3250 - underground. National projects have been implemented in the country since 2019 by decree of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.