The daily residential water use per person in Tashkent city averages 230–270 liters, the highest rate in Uzbekistan. the spokesperson to Uzsuvta’minot Akmal Murodov said.
According to him, the lowest water use rate is in Kashkadarya province, where daily water consumption is at 80–100 liters. Globally, 120–150 liters of per person water use per day is deemed high consumption rate.
In his view, such figures are alarming for a country that relies heavily on external water sources.
Unfortunately, in Uzbekistan, drinking water is used to wash cars and carpets, water trees and plants and to water the land around houses for cooling. In summer, swimming pools are filled and then drained into sewers and ditches without even being used for a couple of days. For a country which relies on outside for 80 percent of water, such behavior is disastrous, he stressed.
According to data from the Ministry of Water Resources, by 2030 the country may face a 7 BCM of water shortage.
Much of the country’s water infrastructure was built 30 to 40 years ago, and needs overhaul. Overall, water-saving projects in Uzbekistan are estimated to require about $19 billion in funding. Of this, $4 billion would be contributed for modernizing pumping stations, while nearly $6 billion would be required to subsidize water-saving technologies.
