ApaSan - Swiss Water and Sanitation Project Moldova

PROJECT

CLIENT	SKAT Foundation LTD.
LOCATION	Republic of Moldova
DURATION	2012 - 2015

The ApaSan – Swiss Water and Sanitation Project in Moldova aims to improve rural water supply services. This shall be reached by investing in infrastructure development, by supporting the nationwide replication of decentralized rural water supply service delivery and management models and by improving conditions that allow effective replication of decentralized drinking water systems.
The ApaSan Project is financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), co-financed by the Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC) and implemented by the SKAT Foundation Moldova.

PARTICULARITIES

The project’s main goal was to create sustainable water supply systems covering a large number of consumers at relatively low costs. These systems mainly consisted of spring catchments or boreholes connected to reservoirs supplying transport pipes and distribution networks in villages. Some systems also included a water treatment plant and pumping stations. ApaSan provided financial support, capacity building and assistance to support local structures to set up, operate and maintain the water supply systems. Nine water supply projects were designed and implemented between 2012 and 2015, with a total supply coverage of 14’700 people.

Village	Network length	Connected people
Bolţun	10.2 km	986
Butuceni/Morovaia	5.1 km	323
Căbăieşti	11.0 km	1’083
Cărpineni	11.7 km	2’300
Micleuşeni	18.4 km	2’205
Mileşti	38.5 km	2’230
Şerpeni	20.0 km	3’100
Trebujeni	14.5 km	1’322
Vulcăneşti	6.2 km	1’154

OUR SERVICES

CSD’s engineering services consisted in the following main tasks:

Coaching of ApaSan’s technical staff and technical staff at companies in charge of the elaboration of the water supply system’s design
Technical training to water supply design companies, construction companies and state technical supervisors
Elaboration of procedures for the review and approval of water supply system design documents
Elaboration of standard designs for water supply infrastructure (spring catchments, reservoirs, pumping stations)
Development of quality management and control procedures for the construction phase
Coaching and on-site training in construction supervision, project management and improvement of infrastructure quality
Evaluation of practices, capacities and quality during the design and implementation phase
Recommendations for future procedures

YOUR CONTACT PERSON(S)

Andreas Paul Schmidt

M.Sc. Engineering, FH
NDS ETHZ water management
Head of water supply domain

Tel: +41 31 970 35 57
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