Next year, Prague plans to invest about CZK 2.7 billion in water management
Next year, the Prague City Hall plans to invest approximately 2.72 billion crowns in the water supply network through its company, the Prague Hospital Society (PVS). This follows from the first draft investment plan discussed by councilors today.
The first proposal for this year proposed an investment of 2.94 billion, the final version approved at the beginning of the year then changed it to 2.65 billion. PVS is owned by the city and is in charge of the water supply network, which it leases to the Prague Water Management Company (PVK). The majority owner of PVK is Veolia, the minority of Prague.
PVS will take the repair money from PVK. According to the approved document, it will reach approximately 2.48 billion crowns, of which 2.27 billion crowns and another 207 PVS plans to obtain from subsidies from the Ministry of Agriculture. The proposed repairs for next year are thus designed with a deficit. In the event that PVS does not raise money beyond the rent, according to the document, some repairs will not be started, or their start will be postponed to another year. The plan includes the reservation of 50 million crowns for unplanned necessary repairs.
Among the waterworks that have already begun, there are plans to continue repairs to the waterworks in Podolí and Káraný. There are also plans to repair the city’s water mains. Sewer repairs will continue, among others, in Vosmíkových Street and the construction of anti-flood measures on the sewer network in the Karlín area in Prague 8.
Next year, the repair of the buildings and premises of the waterworks in Korunní Street is to begin, where a cultural and educational center on the production and distribution of drinking water will begin. Reconstruction will begin with the reservoir in Korunní Street. Restoration of water mains will begin in Zálesí in Prague 4, Šárecká in Prague 6, Českobrodská in Prague 9, Jana Želivského in Prague 3, V Koryty in Prague 10, Radlická in Prague 5 or Korunovační in Prague 7, etc. PVS also plans to build the missing sewerage in the Řeporyj area, the reconstruction of the sewerage system awaits, for example, Bubenské nábřeží in Prague 7 or Na Florenci Street in Prague 1.
The water supply network in Prague measures approximately 3,500 kilometers. Water distribution provided on the basis of a PVK lease agreement. Last year, Prague bought 49 percent of PVK’s shares from the French company Veolia for 1.75 billion crowns. The agreement included an option to repurchase the remaining 51 percent of the shares in 2028, when the company’s contract with PVS to lease water infrastructure expires.
ČTK, illustration photo Naše voda – Nina Havlová (Podolí waterworks)
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