recently with assistance from the european bank for reconstruction and development ebrd the government of tajikistan has been implementing a nationwide programme for rehabilitating wss infrastructure at the same time it is studying whether regionalisation of water utilities could improve operational efficiency as a consequence of poor management in the years following the country s independence the quality of wss services has drastically deteriorated providing sufficient volume of quality water to individual consumers is still a challenge the participation of private entities in the wss sector in turkmenistan is marginal