(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 29. In order
to solve the problem of potable water in Kazakhstan's Mangystau
region, it is planned to build 9 seawater desalination plants with
an estimated cost of more than 247 billion Kazakh tenge ($541.4
million), Deputy Chairman of the Kazakh Construction and
Housing-Communal Services Affairs Committee Azimbek Pazylbekuly
said, trend reports via the Kazakh media.
According to him, in 2025, the shortage of drinking
water in the Mangystau region may amount to 100,000-110,000 cubic
meters per day.
Although water pipelines have been built, there is
still not enough potable water, he said.
To resolve this issue, it is planned to implement
large projects for the construction of 9 plants with an estimated
cost of more than 247 billion Kazakh tenge ($541.4 million),
Pazylbekuly said.
"Currently, as part of the budget program of the
Ministry of Industry and Infrastructural Development, a project is
being implemented to expand the capacity of the Caspian
Desalination Plant in Aktau to 40,000 cubic meters per day. The
project will be completed by the end of this year," the chairman
noted.
He added that this year 4.2 billion tenge ($9.2
million) were allocated for the start of projects for the
construction of desalination plants in the city of Fort-Shevchenko
with a capacity of 5,000 cubic meters per day and 10 billion tenge
($21 million) for the MAEK-Kazatomprom LLP in the city of Aktau
with a capacity of 24,000 cubic meters per day.
In addition, this year, at the expense of private
investments, it is planned to complete the construction of a
desalination plant at the Karazhanbas oil field with a capacity of
17,000 cubic meters per day.
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