President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev signed on May 15 the decree "On additional measures to improve the provision of irrigation water acreage and meet the needs of the population in the drinking water."
According to the order, in 104 villages and 29 urban areas of the country will be designed and drilled artesian wells that contribute to improving the water supply of 310 thousand people. To this end, the Reserve Fund of the President of Azerbaijan to the state budget in 2013 allocated the state of "Irrigation and Water Management" 6 million manat.
The State is currently building two major reservoirs in Shabran and Shemkir areas that will improve the irrigation of 200 hectares, to include in the rotation 50 thousand hectares of land.
In the years 2005-2012 in 407 locations across the country there were drilled 721 boreholes, and in 211 villages there were installed water treatment plants. - 08D-
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