From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 1/19/2007 1:04 AM

Chechnya: Second water station handed over
Przekazanie drugiej bazy wodnej i pożegnanie z pracownikami K2
Uroczystość przekazania bazy K2

Second water purification station, K2, with production capacity of 8 thousand tons of water a month, was handed over to Grozwodokanal – the local institution responsible for the state of water piping in Grozny. The ceremony took part on 28th December, thus the realization of water production and distribution project was entirely overtaken by local society. The project is being led since the year 2000. Every day, five water filters produce 700 tons of potable water, which is then distributed among schools, kindergartens, hospitals, heath centres and temporary accommodation centres for the displaced people who return to Grozny. The same day, the sanitation project led by PHO, was handed over to local Zhilkomtrans. The project, within which 100 cubic meters of garbage and waste is being removed daily, covered hospitals, schools and kindergartens.

The ceremony took place in the premises of Grozwodokanal in the presence of journalists and representatives of UNICEF, the donor of the program. Then, the participants of the ceremony visited the K2 station, where a press conference recapitulating the activities of Polish Humanitarian Organisation in Chechnya took place. During the conference the issues of overtaking the water-sanitation programs and their further realization by Grozwodokanal and Zhilkomtrans were brought up. Among the guests were representatives of the Refugee Committee, Sanitary and Anti-Epidemic Station and the authorities of Grozny.

After the official part of the ceremony, the PHO bid farewell to local personnel, who have been cooperating with us from the very beginning of our presence in Chechnya. Each of them received a special diploma, mug and album about Poland with the signature of Janina Ochojska.
http://www.pah.org.pl/80726.html