City economy

City economy generally includes sewerage and drainage systems, waste sites, electricity grid, underground communications, green plantations, roads, houses, water pipes and infrastructure.

Existing sewerage system includes collectors, which transport wastewater to central purification facilities. Daily volume of wastewater discharge is 599 thousand m3 (reference year 2000). Water purification facilities are frequently overcharged, as they additionally handle wastewater not only from communal and housing sectors, but also from industries and others. Therefore, occasionally, light water pollution takes place downstream in the Kafirnigan River.

There is irrigation, which consists of eleven main canals and some additional watercourses. The length of main canals is 42,09 km, and additional 7,7 km. Annual heavy rainfall and floods oblige city administration to maintain them in operational condition. In year 2000, many irrigation ditch canals were cleared (31989 m3) and more then 27 950 tones of garbage removed. Sometimes irrigation ditches are out of action and it cause big damage to roads, houses, confuses a traffic and transportation.

Water from heavy rains goes through surface drainage canals to canalization. The number of those drainage canals is twelve, with total length about 31,7 km. In year 2000, almost all surface drainage canals were cleared (41700 m3) and about 18 500 tones of garbage removed. Responsibility for proper maintenance of these networks lie on the city administration.

Power supply of Dushanbe is based on Dushanbe-Vaksh energy grid. Electricity goes from the hydropower plant to consumers through a series of power reducing substations. Insufficiency of gas fuel, especially in winter months, increases power consumption by communal sector. In addition to this, many buildings in the city are not effective in terms of energy conservation.

To promote environmental safety in the city economy sector, the following measures are recommended for implementation:

• Increasing of energy efficiency of residential and commercial buildings;
• Energy economy;
• Automatic water quality control and protection of watercourses;
• Increasing capacities of water pumping stations and purification facilities;
• Reconstruction of old water-supply and sewerage system;
• Water economy;
• Improvement of the condition of waste disposal sites;
• Regular waste removal;
• Prohibition of the foliage burning;
• Improvement of the green areas and irrigation;
• Introduction of new green areas and flower beds;
• Suppression of illegal tree cuttings;
• Introduction of evergreen plantations;
• Restoration of historical buildings and monuments;
• Road irrigation to combat dust formation along main streets;
• Public awareness in the schools and universities;
• Publication of the reports about the state of urban environment.

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