Village Udabno Supplied with Water Once a Month

Village Udabno Supplied with Water Once a Month

Tbilisi.26.10.04. Media News.  About 100 residents of the village of Udabno in Sagarejo Region have held a protest action in front of the State Chancellery demanding to be supplied with drinking water.

The protestors state that the village is being supplied with drinking water only once a month. Besides scarce supplies, the drinking water supplied to the village is so polluted that it is not good for animals let alone people. As a consequence, typhus has started to spread.

According to the participants of the action they will continue their protest until the government promises to resume the drinking water supply of their village on a daily basis.

Gari Bukhnikashvli, Interim Governor of Sagarejo does not confirm the allegations of spreading typhus in the Village of Udabno. Nevertheless, he does not deny that the Village is facing a serious proplem with the current supply of drinking water. Drawing attention to the defect 50 kilometres long water supplying system that connects the village Tokhliauri with Udabno and an estimated reconstruction cost of one million GEL, Bukhnikashvli says it is impossible to solve this problem with the resources of the region and its limited budget.
In an interview with Media News, he went on to state “Gia Natsvlishvli, a member of Parliament from our region has informed the central government about the problem”
Shota Tsanava, Director of the National Center for Disease Control also denies any spreading of typhus in the Village of Udabno and states that a diagnosis of this kind of disease cannot be made without proper medical investigation in hopspitals. The National Centre for Disease Control has no knowledge of the occurrence of typhus and hence, since hospitals are obliged to report such cases to the National Centre for Disease Control, the allegations of Udabno’s inhabitants are unlikely.