Specialized exhibition and congress “Clean water. Kazan” open in Kazan
3 April 2012, Tuesday
Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan Ildar Khalikov attended the ceremony of opening III specialized exhibition and congress “Clean water. Kazan”. The event is held at the exhibition center “Kazanskaya Yarmarka” (Kazan).
Welcoming guests and participants of the exhibition, Ildar Khalikov noted that such events become more popular year by year. It is important that the event focuses both on quality of water and scientific solutions in this sphere.
Ildar Khalikov reminded that the republican program on improving water supply and disposal systems in towns and regions for the long-term perspective is being realized in Tatarstan. Solid funds are allocated to provide high-quality water to population.
“We are going to use Russian and world experience and would like to offer our own solutions that can be useful for other Russian regions,” Ildar Khalikov addressed attendees of the ceremony.
Director of the Center of international industrial cooperation of the UNIDO in RF Sergei Korotkov, Chief of the Lower Volga basin water department under the Federal Agency for water resources Anatoly Bykov addressed participants of the exhibition with welcoming speech.
Later on, RT Premier Ildar Khalikov and distinguished guests looked over the exposition organized by 70 enterprises from 15 Russian and foreign cities.
The whole range of equipment and services for renewal and protection of water resources, communal and industrial water supply, repair of pipelines, heating and hot water supply systems, sewage treatment, butylation of water is presented on the stand.
A plenary session “Development of water sphere of Russia” was held after the official opening of the event.
To the point, the exhibition and the congress “Clean water. Kazan” is organized in the context of the federal target program “Clean water” for 2011-2017 approved by the RF Government decree.
Director of the Center of international industrial cooperation of the UNIDO in RF Sergei Korotkov, Chief of the Lower Volga basin water department of the Federal Agency for water resources Anatoly Bykov, Chairman of the “Russian water society” Board Alexandr Katkov, Acting Tatarstan minister of construction, architecture, housing and utilities Aleksei Frolov, Chairman of RT State Council committee for economy, investments and entrepreneurship Marat Galeev attended the event.
The exhibition and the congress “Clean water. Kazan” are open till April 5.
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