Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, June 1
By Huseyn Hasanov – Trend:
Turkmenistan’s local Gul Zaman company has begun the construction of a drinking water treatment plant in Gokdepe District of Ahal Region, Trend reports referring to the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Turkmenistan (UIET).
The company will be located in a 3-hectare area. The design capacity is 1.25 million decalitres of clean drinking water per year, according to the information.
The project envisages equipping the complex with modern equipment from the best global manufacturers, which will allow to computerize all technological processes, as well as to rationally use water resources.
The implementation of such projects is carried out as part of the general program for the provision of clean drinking water to settlements in Turkmenistan.
Turkmenistan borders Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Iran and Afghanistan and uses water resources coming in accordance with agreed quotas from four trans-boundary rivers, namely the Amu Darya, Tejen, Atrek and Murgab rivers.
Turkmenistan is affected by the problem of the ecology of the Aral Sea, which is most noticeable in the country’s northern Dashoguz Region, where problems have arisen with the provision of drinking water, the fight against salinization of cultivation lands, land desertification.
A new field of fresh water, Halach-II, was recently registered on the territory of Halach District of Lebap Region of Turkmenistan. The operational resources of the field have a total area of 58.7 square kilometers.