Nowadays less than half of the 250.000 m3 sewage water goes through proper treatment, including the biological one. If the new treatment plant and the Buda main canal will be completed in 2010, 100% of the wastewater will be treated in a biological way.
Prime Minister Péter Medgyessy, Minister of Environment and Water, Miklós Persanyi, and Mayor of Budapest, Gábor Demszky, made the statement at 17. March 2003.
According to the agreement, the government will cover 20% of the expenses, Budapest 15%, plus HUF 10 billion, and Hungary will apply to the EU Cohesion Found for the remaining 65%. The investment can be started in 2005.
As the minister emphasised, Budapest at the present has a big share of the contamination of the Danube River. That is why, the building of the new treatment plant is not the business of Hungary, it concerns the whole European Community.
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