Tajkistan - Water Governance Facility

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• Establish a Joint Republican Special Group of highly qualified specialists in water supply and sanitation
matters, with powers to establish Water and Sanitation Committees in rural districts and train technical
personnel; develop agreements for ensuring appropriate water quality standards of sources located in
frontier areas; carrying out a national inventory of drinking water supply and sanitation resources based
on a common methodology for defining and identifying ‘ownerless’ assets, and establishing the funding
requirement for the rehabilitation, maintenance and protection of these resources; and ensuring
rational use of drinking water through assembling water meters, introducing contract system with every
household to increase interest and water use culture, optimizing consuming norms, using technologies
saving drinking water.
• Establishment at district level of training centers and programmes for the training of trainers;
rehabilitation at state and regional level of departmental training centers, industrial and technical
schools, and educational programs.
• Legalization of the location of property for water supply systems of villages along with approval of
management typical structure and legalization of powers. This especially concerns areas outside the
control of DCDEDW and KMK SUE.
• Increase in the priority status of all drinking water supply resources that consume electricity; use of
efficient energy-saving technologies; use of reserve transmission lines and alternative energy sources.
• Ensuring water quality in accordance with the current state standards through strengthening
monitoring systems, increasing local levels of responsibility, publishing normative documents, training
operating personnel, increasing public awareness of water rights and responsibilities, establishing
and strengthening of laboratories for Sanitary and Epidemiological Supervision, and enhancing
departmental control.
• Improvement in the quality of the preparation of projects; further development of the documentation
on the current norms for designs and estimates; establishment of joint recording and reporting system,
including rural areas; preparation and spreading of common forms for intake and water supply services.
• Establishing database and strengthening informational system of drinking water supply under the
Ministry of Melioration and Water Resources Management with participation of district Khukumats.
• Development of use of new progressive technologies for purifying drinking water coupled with
rehabilitation, reconstruction and construction of drinking water supply systems, supported by
appropriate technical and economical assessments/feasibility studies.