Русская версия In 2011-2017, the number of people having drinking water in Tajikistan grew from 46.8% to 62.6%, according to Director General of the Housing and Communal Services of Tajikistan Alimurod Islomzoda.
In 2018, this index is supposed to grew by 10%.
“We are planning to finalize over 20 projects to develop water supply in Sughd and Khatlon provinces and some regions of republican subordination.
The projects are being funded by international organizations,” Islomzoda said.
He added that the total cost of the water supply projects implemented in Tajikistan amounts to $98 million.
“Shortly, the World Bank is planning to provide $37 million more for this purpose.
But the country needs a total of $2 billion so as to be able to solve this problem,” Islomzoda said.
Earlier EADaily quoted the WB as saying that in Sept 2017, only 58% of Tajiks had access to drinking water: in cities the rate was 80%, in villages 47%.
Only 60% of townsmen in Tajikistan have flush toilets connected to a sewer system.
In villages this rate is as low as 1.7%.

One of the big stories this week is about Cape Town’s water crisis and another 11 cities that are likely to run out of drinking water.
A BBC report a few days ago brought out the chilling fact that more than a billion people worldwide "lack access to water and another 2.7 billion find it scarce at least one month in a year".
For Kenya, this is a wake-up call.
Nairobi may not be ranked among the cities at risk of running out of water, but its residents are suffering from serious water stress, and the situation is getting worse.
Nairobi Water and Sewerage Company’s supply of 570,000 cubic metres a day falls far short of the demand of 720,000 cubic metres a day.
A more acute shortage will hit the city’s four million residents even harder.
Harvesting is a practical and cost-effective solution.
Another solution is to increase climate-resilient initiatives to conserve water sources.
Kenyans need to embrace smart conservation and climate change mitigation to reduce water stress, even in times of prolonged drought.
Doing this will reduce the increasing risk of conflicts over drinking water.

Millions of Americans use unsafe drinking water each year, a new study has found.
Small, rural, publicly owned water systems had the most frequent violations.
In Martin County, Kentucky, residents never know what they’re going to get when they turn on their faucets.
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"We felt that in the aftermath of the Flint lead crisis, there was an urgent need to assess the current state of drinking water in the U.S.," University of California-Irvine urban planner Maura Allaire, who led the study, told USA Today.
The study, which examined 17,900 U.S. water systems from 1982 to 2015, found most of the nation’s drinking water is clean, but many of the areas that had poor water quality readings were repeated violators of federal health standards.
"Many of these smaller utilities have just a handful of people who are charged with managing the entire system," Manuel P. Teodoro, a political scientist at Texas A&M University, told the New York Times.
(MORE: The Secret About All That Snow at the PyeongChang Olympics) In Martin County, tainted water has become such a consistent, rampant problem that water bills often include warnings about the long-term health dangers from disinfectant byproducts used to remove toxins from the drinking water, the L.A. Times reported.
Some residents have resorted to boiling rainwater so they can bathe and melting snow so they can flush their toilets.
This is life in Coal Country, where leaky, old pipes are in desperate need of replacement.

Over 50,000 households in Mombasa have no access to clean water and sanitation, two NGOs have said.
Maji Na Ufanisi and Mombasa Water Action Group said out of a population of over 1.2 million, 25 per cent relies on water vendors.
Simon Kazungu, program officer at Maji na Ufanisi said those without access walk over a kilometre or more than 30 minutes to get just five litres of water per day.
"Only 27 per cent of Mombasa has access to sewer or septic tank infrastructure.
Access to safe drinking water is an essential element of sustainable development, central to the goal of poverty reduction," Kazungu said.
Mombasa gets 43,000 cubic metres of water daily against a demand of 182,000 cubic metres.. "There is need for ensuring that clean and safe water is accessible to all," Kazungu said.
"We call for development of county water resources management strategy that assesses water situations," Kazungu said.
HAKI Africa Programme Officer Francis Auma said water cartels in the county are to be blame for perennial scarcity.
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All nine community water systems on Lytton First Nation land in British Columbia have been under boil water advisories at one time or another.
With Lytton First Nation’s water treatment operators at the centre of an “innovation circle,” they and experts from government, universities, consulting firms, water companies and contractors identified and piloted several options for providing affordable, sustainable water treatment solutions.
It’s one of several innovative, much-needed approaches to meeting the federal government’s promise to end all long-term drinking water advisories in First Nations communities by 2021.
As commendable as the government’s commitment is, new research shows it’s falling short on progress.
A David Suzuki Foundation report, Reconciling Promises and Reality: Clean Drinking Water for First Nations, finds the government failing on eight of 14 indicators developed to assess its progress.
As of Jan. 23, there were 91 long-term drinking water advisories affecting First Nations communities on public systems.
Over the past two years, the government has lifted 32 advisories, but 22 new ones were added over the same time, illustrating the complexity of the problem.
Year 1 Progress Toward Resolving Drinking Water Advisories in Nine First Nations in Ontario, that still apply.
Legislation needs to come down the pipe It also recommends that government invest in and share successful models of First Nations-led approaches to resolving drinking water advisories, including developing and implementing source water protection plans.
Legislation and regulations should also be developed, with First Nations as equal partners, to hold the federal government accountable to First Nations for safe drinking water.

Water is the most essential thing for the survival of human being.
11 cities of the world are likely under the danger, where there will be no drinking water.
According to 2014 survey of the world’s 500 largest cities estimates that one in four are in a situation of water stress.
Water is the most essential thing for the survival of human being.
11 cities of the world are likely under the danger, where there will be no drinking water.
Over one billion people lack access to water and another 2.7 billion find it scarce for at least one month of the year.
According to 2014 survey of the world’s 500 largest cities estimates that one in four are in a situation of water stress.
This practice is draining the underground aquifers, almost literally deflating them, about 40% of Jakarta now lies below sea level, according to World Bank estimates Moscow (Russia) One-quarter of the world’s fresh water reserves are in Russia, but the country is plagued by pollution problems caused by the industrial legacy of the Soviet era.
Water losses because of problems in the pipe network are also estimated at 40%.
At least 750 private and public buildings in Tokyo have rainwater collection and utilization systems.

Cairo is among 11 cities across the world that are most likely to run out of drinking water due to untreated agricultural and residential waste, according to a BBC report published on Sunday.
In March 2017, Egypt’s Housing Minister Mostafa Madbouly said that the country had entered the water poverty phase, and that the annual amount of water supply per person had fallen to 700 cubic meters, compared to the global average of 1,000 cubic meters.
He added that the desalination of seawater is currently a very high priority for Egypt.
As the population continues to increase and drinking water resources remain traditionally fixed, it is expected that water availability per capita will steadily decrease.
“There is no longer any room but to go ahead, and very quickly, with desalinating sea water, and to make it a strategic choice for our national security at this stage,” Madbouly said in March, 2017.
Meanwhile, Egypt is in the process of constructing the largest seawater desalination plant in the world, located in the Suez Governorate’s coastal city of Ain Sokhna.
In January, President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi vowed to protect Egypt’s share of the Nile water and capitalize on its usage.
“This is our country,” Sisi said, “and water for agriculture and drinking must be secured for citizens from Aswan to Alexandria, so that no problem will occur later, and we [don’t] say that we are not ready for it.” “Egypt is currently carrying out the [world’s] biggest water treatment and desalination project, in case of any circumstances concerning the sharing of water,” said Sisi, according to Al-Ahram, referring to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) crisis, which could potentially threaten Egypt’s share of Nile water.
The water treatment and desalination project will cost LE70 billion, announced Sisi.
A 2014 survey of the world’s 500 largest cities estimates that one in four are in a situation of “water stress,” the BBC report says.

Daijiworld Media Network – Bengaluru Bengaluru, Feb 12: Bengaluru has been featured among the 11 cities across the world by BBC, which is likely to run out of drinking water.
Experts who were studying the drinking water crisis in Cape Town said that the plight of the drought-hit South African city is just one extreme example of a problem that experts have long been warning about – water scarcity.
Bengaluru may soon face Cape Town’s situation which is struggling for drinking water.
The BBC report states, Bengaluru has been bamboozled by the growth of new property developments following its rise as a technological hub.
Bengaluru water bodies have been subjected to pollution.
According to a report in The Guardian, Bengaluru had 285 lakes in the 1970s, the number of which reduced to 194 lakes in 2017.
An in-depth inventory of the city’s lakes found that 85% had water that could only be used for irrigation and industrial cooling.
The BBC report which comments on the global scarcity of water highlights that over one billion people lack access to water and another 2.7 billion find it scarce for at least one month of the year.
A 2014 survey of the world’s 500 largest cities estimates that one in four are in a situation of "water stress" According to UN-endorsed projections, global demand for fresh water will exceed supply by 40% in 2030, thanks to a combination of climate change, human action and population growth.
Apart from Bengaluru, cities such as Sao Paulo, Beijing, Cairo, Jakarta, Moscow, Istanbul, Mexico City, London, Tokyo and Miami are on the verge of water crisis.

The Honourable Jane Philpott, Minister of Indigenous Services, today congratulated Slate Falls Nation on the successful completion of a new water treatment plant and the ending of 11 drinking water advisories in place for almost 14 years.
The Government of Canada remains steadfast in its commitment to ending all long-term drinking water advisories on public water systems on reserve by March 2021.
Indigenous Services Canada is working with First Nation communities to improve water and wastewater infrastructure and ensure proper operation and maintenance.
Quotes "Today I offer my congratulations to Chief Crane and the entire community of Slate Falls Nation.
Since 2004, long-term drinking water advisories have limited residents’ access to safe, clean drinking water, and I am absolutely thrilled to see the completion of this new water system and the lifting of eleven long-term advisories.
Today’s announcement marks a significant step forward in our government’s commitment to ending all long-term drinking water advisories on public systems on reserve by March 2021.
I look forward to visiting the community in the near future to celebrate this momentous occasion."
On January 23, 2018, Minister Philpott announced the Government is expanding its efforts to end long-term drinking water advisories by addressing an additional 24 long-term drinking water advisories on systems that had not previously received federal support.
Since November 2015, 52 long-term drinking water advisories have been lifted on public water systems financially supported by the Government of Canada, bringing the total number of long-term drinking water advisories in effect on public drinking water systems on reserve to 81.
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(MENAFN – Pajhwok Afghan News) FEROZKOH (Pajhwok): Grappling with an acute shortage of drinking water, the residents of western Ghor province have urged the government to relieve them from walking long distances to fetch water home after most of the wells in their localities dried up.
Three main rivers of the country, Hariroud, Murghab and Farahroud flow through Ghor province, but still its residents lack drinking water, according to the residents, who claim most of the wells in Ferozkhoh, the provincial capital, had dried up.
Hussai, another resident, said they had shared the water scarcity problem with local officials but to no avail.
We shared the issue with local representatives but they did not pay attention,€ he said.
Meanwhile, Provincial Council (PC) members termed the water shortage as a huge issue and added the supply of drinking water to every home was the people€™s prime demand.
PC head Fazal Haq Ihsan said he had often highlighted the water scarcity issue during his trips to Kabul with the Energy and Water Ministry.
Governor Ghulam Nasir Khasi said due to the lack of energy, electricity and water resources, the local administration had been unable to address the water shortage issue.
He said thousands of families in Ferozkhoh had been facing the shortage of water and they had been trying to resolve the issue.
Mohammad Amin Wakeel, head of the Hariroud River Administration, said in the past officials of the Energy and Water Ministry had strived to build a water supply system for Ferozkoh but some powerful individuals did not allow the project.
He said only two percent of people in Ghor had access to clean drinking water.