DUSHANBE, July 1, 2013, Asia-Plus — The Dushanbe mayor’s office has announced a tender for installation of residential water meters.
An official source at the Dushanbe mayor’s office says 76,500 residential water meters will be installed in Dushanbe with financial support from the World Bank under the Second Dushanbe water Supply Project.
“In this connect, they mayor’s office carries out the tender on selection of company for installation of residential meters from July 1 to August 14,” the source said.
He further added that France’s Itron had won the contract for purchase and delivery of water meters.
The objective of the Second Dushanbe Water Supply Project for Tajikistan is to improve water utility performance and water supply services in selected areas of Dushanbe. There are four components to the project, the first component being metering and demand management. The component will finance consumption metering and bulk metering of water, for increased revenue, reduced wastage, and better tracking of losses, including: 1) supply and installation of 76,500 residential meters (i.e. approximately 46 percent of Dushanbe Vodokanal (DVK – Dushanbe municipal waterworks) users); and installation of 1,500 apartment building master meters in selected areas of the city; 2) rehabilitation of 1,500 apartment building service connections; 3) supply and installation of bulk flow meters at water production facilities; 4) supply and installation of a Network Information System (NIS); 5) communication strategy and public awareness campaigns to promote metering and demand management; and 6) installation of Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system. The second component is the water quality improvement. The components will support system upgrades for improved quality of water, including network cleaning. The third component is the institutional strengthening and capacity building. The component will finance activities to build institutional capacity and improve utility performance of DVK, which includes: carrying out an assessment of DVK”s organizational and capacity-building needs; and installation of modern accounting, billing and water revenue collection systems. Finally, the fourth component is the implementation support.
