Pm Orders Immediate Action to Improve the Central Water Treatment Plant

By M.OYUNGEREL

After paying a visit to the Central Water Treatment Plant on November 3, Prime Minister Ch.Saikhanbileg ordered immediate action to improve the conditions of the facility.

The PM, Government Secretariat S.Bayartsogt, Minister of Construction and Urban Design Z.Bayanselenge, Ulaanbaatar Mayor S.Bat-Uul, Director of the National Water Management Authority S.Unen and other officials paid a visit to the treatment facility.

The facility was built in 1964 with the capacity to cleaning 170,000 cubic meters of waste water a day. Due to industrial waste water, the facility receives four to eight times the capacity of water but only cleans 160,000 to 180,000 cubic meters daily.

The facility has been naturally drying all the filtered sludge since it was established. The sludge field covers 15 hectares of land. The facility engineers said that 400,000 cubic meters of the sludge is conglomerated, which may impose great danger to human health and environment.

The PM ordered immediate action on the issue urging his "Decision Hour" meeting.

"The 60-year-old facility is not only an issue to the state but one to the whole country as 45 percent of the entire population resides here. There's no choice but to pay attention to this. Mayor S.Bat-Uul is here. It is hard for the capital to deal with this issue alone. The government needs to support, so I brought my team here. Today is not the day to talk but to act," said...