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Yerevan Joor to lower price of drinking water for Yerevan households to 175 drams per one cubic meter

26.05.2011, 03:58
Armenia’s Public Services Regulatory Commission (PSRC) ruled May 24 to allow Yerevan Joor (Yerevan Water) distribution company to lower the price of one cubic meter of drinking water for Yerevan households by 8 drams to 174.06 drams. The decision takes ef

YEREVAN, May 25, /ARKA/. Armenia’s Public Services Regulatory Commission (PSRC) ruled May 24 to allow Yerevan Joor (Yerevan Water) distribution company to lower the price of one cubic meter of drinking water for Yerevan households by 8 drams to 174.06 drams. The decision takes effect on July 8. Last year the price was raised by Yerevan Joor to 195 drams, but due to a Yerevan municipality subsidy households paid 181 drams.

Garegin Baghramian, head of a PSRC department in charge of service prices, said the price of one cubic meter of water is 147.9 drams. Yerevan Joor charges additional 12.2 drams for waste water removal and 13.9 drams for purification of waste water. Yerevan deputy mayor Kamo Areyan said the subsidy ends July 8.

Yerevan Jur (Yerevan Water) is run by French Generale des Eaux that won an international tender announced by World Bank to take up a long-term management of the Yerevan network in 2006. It pledged to upgrade the obsolete network and ensure 24-hour water supplies to households. The company manages also drinking and waste water removal systems in Ararat, Aragatsotn and Kotayk provinces.
Yerevan Jur has 339,370 customers and produces 370 million cubic meters of drinking water a year and manages 2,120 lm long water pipelines.  -0-