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STORY: ARMENIA WATER SUPPLY
TRT: 2:35
SOURCE: WORLD BANK
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARMENIAN / NATS
DATELINE: FEBRUARY 2009, DILIJAN, ARMENIA
1.Wide shot, corroded pipes
2. Close up, pipes
3. Med shot, pipes
4. Wide shot, new water plant
5. Med shot, Vartan at work
6. SOUNDBITE (Armenian) Vartan Mnatsakanyan, Head of Water Distribution:
“We have special laboratories that are examining every hour the quantity of chlorine, aluminum and bacteria in the water.”
7. Various shots workers in plant
8. Wide shot, city of Charentsavan
9. SOUNDBITE (Armenian) Garnik Galstyan, Charentsavan Water Sector:
“The new pumping equipment and renovations have increased dramatically the water in the city. If Charentsavan was receiving 4 or 5 hours of water per day before, now it is receiving 18-19 hours a day.”
10. Med shot, laboratory
11. Close up, laboratory
12. SOUNDBITE (Armenian) Armine Baberstyan, Trainee:
“It has helped very much because we are getting information according to international standards and we are trying to apply this technology at our work stations.”
13. Various shots, training
14. Various shots, water testing
15. Med shot, Hakob walking into his apartment
16. Med shot, Hakob and his wife
17. SOUNDBITE (Armenian) Hakob Galstyan Resident:
“In the past we had water 8 to 9 a.m., but with the project we get it from 7a.m. to 12 noon and then 4 to midnight.”
18. Med shot, wife filling up saucepan with water
Until not long ago, these corroded pipes were part of the water treatment plant serving the town of Dilijan in Armenia’s North.
Valves were leaking, and the plant often operated only a few hours a day.
Now the water treatment plant at Dilijan has been restored. Since then, the plant operates 24 hours a day, providing 16,200 residents with high quality drinking water.
SOUNDBITE (Armenian) Vartan Mnatsakanyan, Head of Water Distribution:
“We have special laboratories that are examining every hour the quantity of chlorine, aluminum and bacteria in the water.”
Armenia is renewing its water system under the country’s Water Supply and Wastewater Project, supported by the World Bank. Under the project, water treatment plants and pumping stations around the country are being renovated or rebuilt.
This station serves the Armenian city of Charentsavan.
It’s been renovated with new equipment, including these energy efficient, German-made pumps which have greatly increased the amount of water pumped from this mountain reservoir to the city below.
Charentsavan’s 25,000 thousand residents now have access to running water in their homes most of the day:
SOUNDBITE (Armenian) Garnik Galstyan, Charentsavan Water Sector:
“The new pumping equipment and renovations have increased dramatically the water in the city. If Charentsavan was receiving 4 or 5 hours of water per day before, now it is receiving 18-19 hours a day.”
As part of the project Armenia is training hundreds of the country’s water system employees in the latest methods of distributing water and chlorine.
Armine Baberstyan says the week-long training will help her better serve the water treatment plant she works in.
SOUNDBITE (Armenian) Armine Baberstyan, Trainee:
“It has helped very much because we are getting information according to international standards and we are trying to apply this technology at our work stations.”
The training includes ways of better controlling the water usage, and the basics of installing water meters in homes:
Hacob is an unemployed electrical engineer. The apartment he shares with his wife and daughter- in- law was one of the first to benefit from the renewed water system.
SOUNDBITE (Armenian) Hakob Galstyan Resident:
“In the past we had water 8 to 9 a.m., but with the project we get it from 7a.m. to 12 noon and then 4 to midnight.”
Perhaps soon, they say, they will have water all day.
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