Potable Water in Armenia

Armenia is rich with its potable water resources.
It is conditioned by the volcanic origin of the earth's crust of the area.
There are a number of natural springs often with capacity of 2000 litre per second (l/s).
In most cases, the population drinks spring water of high quality. The company has over 400 catchment facilities in the service regions of the Republic.

Water Resources

The Ministry of Nature Protection of the Republic of Armenia gave the company’s service sphere corresponding water use permit for all the surface and underground springs.

Water Treatment

Though Armenia is rich in potable water resources, they are not equally distributed either in terms of territory and time. In some settlements (Kapan, Dilijan, Artik, Meghri, Agarak, Berd and other) there are no sweet water springs. The potable water supply of the mentioned settlement is put into operation due to treatment the surface water.

System

The water is supply of around 310 settlements is implemented due to 110 systems.
These systems are:

Supply

The water is supplied either by gravity or mechanically (pumps). The company serves 41 pumping stations:

Except the mentioned pumping stations there are many intra-community pumping stations and pumps in a number of settlements.