The Spanish company will build a $ 100 million water treatment facility in Samarkand

The Spanish company will build a wastewater treatment plant in the Samarkand region with a cost of $ 100 million. 

According to the report, Uzbek ambassador Jahongir Ganiyev held talks with Luis Blanco, director of institutional relations for Almar Water Solutions in Spain, and Manuel Garcia Calvola, head of the Marketing and Business Development Department. 

The meeting discussed the issues of foreign direct investment and advanced technologies in Uzbekistan, exchange of experience in the field of cleaning wastewater treatment facilities. Representatives of Spain expressed great interest in participating with their technologies and investments in projects carried out in the direction of construction and modernization of wastewater treatment facilities in Uzbekistan.

According to the foreign side, representatives of Almar Water Solutions participated in a business forum organized within the framework of the meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission of Uzbekistan and Spain, which took place in Tashkent on March 1-2. The company has signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Samarkand region authorities on the implementation of a project to build and manage a wastewater treatment plant in the city of Kattakurgan, worth US $ 100 million, on the basis of the DPRK.

Within the framework of this project, the Spanish company initially noted the desire to continue discussions with the relevant organizations of Uzbekistan in order to start research and develop the necessary documents.

As a result of the negotiations, it was agreed to develop the issue of conducting dialogues with representatives of the consultative organizations of Uzbekistan in order to accelerate the projects envisaged by the parties.

Water-saving technologies in Uzbekistan
In early April, the presidential decree “on measures that cannot be delayed to improve the efficiency of the use of Water Resources”was adopted.

According to the resolution, from April 1, 2023, the following procedure for state support for the introduction of water-saving technologies in the cultivation of agricultural products will be established:

the collateral provision of loans of commercial banks is provided on the basis of the guarantee of the state fund for the support of entrepreneurial activity up to 50 percent, but not more than 2.5 billion rubles;
in the case of loans of commercial banks allocated in national currency, where the interest rate does not exceed 1.5 times the basic rate of the Central bank, compensation is provided from the savings account to cover the interest rate that exceeds the basic rate, but not more than 30% of the basic rate.
It was also said that Spain will carry out projects to provide clean drinking water to remote settlements in Uzbekistan.