French Suez is implementing three projects in the field of drinking water supply in the Surkhandarya and Kashkadarya provinces of Uzbekistan worth total 340 million euros. This was announced by the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev at the government meeting on March 17.
According to the head of state, an agreement to begin work was reached during his state visit to France.
“French Suez is receiving drinking water supply systems in the Denau, Shurchi, Saraosi, and Kumkurgan districts for private management. This means preventing the loss of 2 BCMs of water per year. The share of centralized water supply in the Surkhandarya province will reach 90%, an additional 1 million people will have access to water,” he said in a story on the Uzbekistan 24 TV channel.
Uzsuvtaminot elaborated stating that the project in Kashkadarya involves the hand-over of the drinking water supply system in Karshi to Suez, but to begin with, such a project will be implemented in Tashkent in a pilot mode. In August 2023, Suez and Tashkent Shahar Suv Taminoti signed a seven-year contract and commenced modernizing the capital's water supply system.
As reported earlier, , Uzsuvtaminot signed a Termsheet with the French Suez in Paris — the common terms contract for the phase I of the project to modernize the water supply system of the Surkhandarya province.
The agreement for $8.3 million provides for the implementation of digital solutions SCADA, GIS, Aquadvance, which will manage the production and distribution of drinking water, provide a network map in real time and reduce water losses.
The press service of Uzsuvtaminot specified that the first stage includes the following:
- installation of 15 flow control devices on water supply networks, installation of flow meters at 3 pumping stations and equipment for recording water consumption at 5 wells, as well as the implementation of a SCADA system;
- study of internal networks subject to expansion and electricity consumption, as well as hydraulic modeling of networks;
- implementation of a geographic information system (GIS) for 3,500 km of internal networks;
- provision of local water supply workers and inspectors with 10 modern computers and 61 tablets;
- survey to update consumer data and improve the database;
- installation of 3,100 meters.
- training of 450 employees.
