Kazakh railway company builds water supply networks in 430 settlements

By bne IntelliNews June 24, 2016

Kazakhstan’s state-owned railway company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy has built water supply and sewage networks in 430 railway settlements since 2012, the company said in a press release on June 23.

A sizeable share of Kazakhstan’s population does not have access to safe water and many small settlements lack water supply and sewage networks. According to government figures, nearly 60% of the country’s rural population and nearly 20% of the urban population did not have access to water supply networks in 2011.

The government aims to increase the share of the population with access to centralised water supply networks to 80% by 2020. Many rural settlements in the country depend on a single industrial enterprise such as a railway station or a mine and often these enterprises are tasked to fund social projects in such settlements such as building hospitals and schools and water and electricity supply networks. Kazakhstan’s population is 17.8mn, of which 43% is rural.

Kazakhstan Temir Zholy said that it had repaired 744 water supply and sewage facilities in 430 settlements since it adopted the Moldir Bulak (“Clear Spring”) programme to build infrastructure in railway settlements in 2011.

It plans to complete the repairs of 61 facilities this year and a further 65 facilities in 2017.

Read in IntelliNews Pro
Get IntelliNews Pro

Related Articles

US investor reportedly to replace CEFC in refinery deal with KazMunayGas

A US investor backed by Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) might replace troubled China Energy Company Limited (CEFC) and take over 51% of KazMunayGas International ... more

ADB sees general Central Asia slowdown in 2018

The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB’s) Asian Development Outlook anticipates a general slowdown across the Central Asian region, with the exceptions of Uzbekistan, where the development bank ... more

Kazakhstan mulls ban on cryptocurrencies

Kazakhstan’s central bank is considering a ban on cryptocurrency use, exchanges, and mining, Daniyar Akishev, the chairman of Kazakhstan’s National Bank, told ... more

Most Read

  1. Putin and Trump trying to walk back Syria strike and sanctions tensions
    1 day ago
  2. What’s the cost of US sanctions on Russia?
    3 days ago
  3. Turkey’s Erdogan warns “nobody can discipline us with exchange rates”
    7 days ago
  4. Leaked document shows EU’s initially hardline approach to Gazprom
    8 days ago
  5. Romanian developers get in the game
    1 day ago
  1. Fears raised of US conditioning F-35s sale on Turkey cancelling S-400 deal with Russia
    23 days ago
  2. COMMENT: Whisper it – ‘Erdonomics’ could be driving Turkey to a meltdown
    10 days ago
  3. KRUK REPORT: Nadia Savchenko, Ukraine’s fallen hero
    27 days ago
  4. Putin and Trump trying to walk back Syria strike and sanctions tensions
    1 day ago
  5. Turkey’s Erdogan warns “nobody can discipline us with exchange rates”
    7 days ago

Selected articles from our premium news/views wire IntelliNews Pro

Login to IntelliNews Pro
Get IntelliNews Pro

Reports

Dismiss