National Program for Implementation of the Protocol on Water and Health for the years 2016-2025.

The overall objective of the Program is to achieve the target indicators for the 20 areas by 2025, based on competences and responsibilities provided by national laws and international conventions and agreements ratified by Moldova. The Program also sets out 12 specific objectives, the most important of which are: (a) ensuring by 2025 safe potable water supply to 100% of institutions for children and reducing up to 20% the samples of non-complying potable water in terms of chemical parameters and 5% in microbiological parameters; (b) reducing by 20% by 2025 the number of epidemic outbreaks of infectious diseases and the incidence of water-related diseases; (c) providing access to sustainable drinking water systems in 100% institutions for children and access of the general population to water supply up to 75% by 2025 and (d) ensuring by 2025 100% population access to improved sanitation systems, including up to 50% to sewerage systems. The sanitation system is a set of technological installations, functional equipment and specific facilities through which the public sewerage service is performed. The public sewerage system includes, in particular, the following components: public sewerage networks, pumping stations, treatment plants, exhaust manifolds towards emissary. This sector plays an important role within the Protocol on Water and Health and achievement of planned targets could help improving the state of the environment and welfare. To improve the quality of discharged wastewater, capacity of operators shall be built and regional companies established. In this context minimum requirements for an operational regional company shall be defined and a license from the regulator shall be obtained. To provide the population with access to information on quality of water covered by the Protocol, several reports are developed by different authorities. Annually the National Centre for Public Health (www.cnsp.md) develops and publishes the National Report on the state surveillance of public health in Moldova, which contains data on surveillance of (potable, surface) water quality carried out by the public health institutions and data on access to improved water systems and incidence through infectious diseases, including those that may be caused by water. The Overall Goal of this Program is to improve the quality of life and access of population to safe potable water and improved sanitation by planning measures to ensure achievement of target indicators of the Protocol on Water and Health. The objectives of this Program are focused on mainstreaming water and health priorities in Moldova with national planning processes actions in the sectors of water supply, sanitation, health and other areas with reference to the Protocol to achieve Protocol target indicators.