Kazakh President visited new pumping and filter plant in Astana
17:38, 2 June 2011
ASTANA. June 2. KAZINFORM /Damir Baimanov/ Today Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has visited a new pumping and filter plant in Astana with the cleaning capacity of 100 thousand cubic meters of water per day.
The facility was built near the old station with the capacity of 200 thousand cubic meters of water per day, which continues to operate. The construction works took four and half years. The project cost is KZT 60 billion. The daily need of Astana in drinking water is around 180-200 thousand cubic meters per day.