Yovkovtsi Ltd.
Veliko Tarnovo
SIGNALS 24 hours a day
0700 18126 / 062 618 126 / 062 620 077

About us

Water supply and sewerage company Yovkovtsi Ltd. (WSSCY Ltd.) in its current structure serves approximately 300,000 people from nine municipalities – Veliko Tarnovo, Gorna Oryahovitsa, Elena, Lyaskovets, Zlataritsa, Pavlikeni, Polski Trambesh, Strazhitsa and Suhindol and also supplies municipality Dryanovo with purified water. The length of the water main supported by the company is 2,877 thousand meters (including 2299 thousand meters asbestos cement pipes). The length of sewerage is 279 thousand meters. WSSCY Ltd. has built DWTP (drinking water treatment plant) near the Yovkovtsi Reservoir from which the company draws water, WWTP [waste water treatment plant] in Veliko Tarnovo, WWTP in Gorna Oryahovitsa and 190 water pumping stations.
Water-supply of the territory that WSSCY Ltd. serves is carried out by the Yovkovtsi Reservoir as a surface water source and 346 units of water intake (drainage, reservoirs, wells and shafts).
Water is supplied to the settlements by pumps or gravity means. Waste water from households and industrial enterprises is directed to WWTP and after purification flows into the receiver the Yantra River.
The plans of the WSSCY Ltd. are included into Business program by 2009, which will improve the quality of services to the level the customers deserve.

Directions of  activity of WSSCY Ltd.:

  • Technical support, maintenance and operation of water supply, distribution and sewerage system;
  • Management and efficient use of water resources;
  • Construction, reconstruction and replacement of water systems, supporting equipment and buildings’ equipment;
  • Operation and maintenance of the facilities of drinking water treatment plants, waste water treatment plants and pumping stations and reservoirs;
  • Optimization and expansion of automated  management and control systems.


Priorities of WSSCY Ltd.:
The main priorities of the company are:

  • Gradual renewal of  the water supply and sewerage system in order to reduce the loss of drinking water;
  • Improvement of the existing measures in automation, dispatching and control system, implementation of modern comprehensive monitoring schemes in order to benefit efficiency and quality of services (continuity of water supply, control of water quality, etc.);
  • Improvement of energy efficiency by optimization of plants, equipment and human resources, separately and in their interconnection;
  • Improvement of work efficiency and customer service, improvement of the system  accounting the quantity of used water and its payment;
  • Improving the quality of drinking water;
  • Decrease and removal of water supply disconnection;
  • Providing investment in order to reduce operating costs.