Armenia: Zovuni residents suffer from polluted water & claim water company refuses to fix the problem
Zovuni residents can't get response of their drinking water expert assessment, 17 january 2022
For about two years now, the residents of Zovuni community, Kotayk Region, have been deprived of the opportunity to have clean drinking water. Due to the frequent accidents, the drinking water flowing through the water pipes becomes polluted, yellowish liquid flows from the tap in the apartments. "We alert “Veolia Jur" about a regular accident, they come, take water samples for chemical-bacteriological analysis, but they do not inform us about the results..."
According to the resident, "Veolia Jur" company only informs about the results of previous examination that they are within the norm. Mariam Sukhudyan (Zovuni resident) noted that the employees of "Veolia Jur" company recently took a water sample again, but did not provide the residents with any written information about the results of the examination.
When the residents tried to contact the company's laboratory for the results of the examination, they reported that they had not received any samples from the address mentioned by the residents. Meanwhile, the Facebook page of "Veolia Jur" company responded to the residents' inquiry, saying that the laboratory found out that no qualitative deviations were found in the samples taken at the address mentioned by the resident.
Mariam Sukhudyan mentioned that the reason for the frequent water pollution is the miserable condition of the water pipes. According to her, a complete overhaul of the drinking water pipeline in Zovuni community is needed...