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The Minister of Environmental Protection, Sara Pavkov, today visited the capital project of building a wastewater treatment plant in Nis, which, with a capacity of 286,000 equivalent inhabitants, is one of the largest green projects currently being implemented in Serbia, as well as a new automatic measuring station for monitoring air quality. Minister Pavkov, who visited the projects together with the Ambassador of the European Union in Serbia, Andreas von Beckerath, and the Mayor of Nis, Dragoslav Pavlovic, stated that both projects are important for citizens as they raise environmental protection standards. Today in Nis, together with our EU partners, I visited the projects we are working on together, one of which is the construction of a wastewater treatment plant, from which, when it is put into operation, technically correct water will flow into the recipient. As part of the project, with a total value of 87 million euros, is the construction of the missing sewage network with a total length of 46.6 kilometers, and so far, as the contractors told us, more than 36 kilometers have already been built. Through the same project, which we are financing together with the EU through the IPA 2018 program, we are also building a treatment plant for wastewater from filter washing and sludge treatment in Medijana. By implementing this capital project, we are solving the problem of wastewater management according to European standards and building a system that permanently improves the quality of life for the citizens of Nis, said Pavkov. Before visiting the construction of the wastewater treatment plant at the Ciganski Kljuc location in Nis, Minister Pavkov also visited the new automatic measuring station for monitoring air quality parameters, which was financed through the IPA 2020 program. This measuring station is part of a developed state network of about 100 automatic measuring sites, as many as there are in the Republic of Serbia, and which makes our country a leader in the region. This means that air quality will be measured at three measuring sites in Nis with modern monitoring equipment, considering that the equipment at the other two measuring sites, at the Sveti Sava Primary School and at the Nis Institute of Public Health, has also been modernized. The developed network of measuring stations helps us to inform citizens more transparently, but also to monitor the specific effects of a set of measures for better air quality and to plan future measures and competitions even better. Our goal is better air quality, and monitoring is one of the important prerequisites for achieving that goal for the benefit of all, said Pavkov.
