– Our colleagues built 126 sewage treatment plants, including over the Volga and Baikal. We [wraz z pracownikami Rosprinadzoru] We went there with instruments, we measured them and only 20 of them meet the norms. Now we are dealing with the others – he said.
The construction of water treatment plants is managed by the Ministry of Labor and is implemented by the regional authorities as part of the national project “Ecology”. Kozłow specified that the 19 sewage treatment plants were not put into use within the prescribed period. – Four are located in Samara, four in the Moscow region, three in Zabajkale, two in the Uljanowski region and Buriacia, one in the Astrakan region, Niżnonowogrodzki, Twerskie and Vchuchasji – said Kozłow.
On May 23, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Patruszew informed that in the last six years about 130 sewage treatment plants have been built in Russia. A year ago, Sergej Kolunow, the Duma Committee for Construction, Housing and Municipal Services, stated that the overwhelming majority of such facilities in the country (on average 80 percent) are consumed.
– In total there are about 60,000 in Russia. Water Treatment Plant, 21 thousand sewage pumping station and 12 thousand Sewage treatment plant – said Aleksander Kogan, vice -chairman of the State Duma Committee for Ecology. According to Kolunow, most of them were built in the 1960s and 1970s. Kogan also noticed that about 20 percent Russian citizens live in an environment without centralized or local treatment plants. Ivan Andriejewski, head of the board of the engineering company 2K, stated that If the situation does not improve, “full water crisis” and drinking water deficiency may occur in Russia.
Serious consumption of infrastructure often leads to various accidents. For example, in November 2024, Kurgan, in which over 300,000 lives people, as a result of a failure in the sewage treatment plant, were deprived of access to water. Last year, at least four times there were disturbances in water supply throughout the city.
