for instance armenia now has only five water companies yerevan djur armvodkanal nor akunk lorivodkanal and shirakvodkanal covering the whole population see box below on armenia this would help achieve economies of scale and remove some resource limitations including shortage of staff at the beginning of almost municipal water supply and sanitation utilities were integrated and two legal entities were created agmosavletis tskali ltd eastern water and dasavletis tskali ltd western water this integration aimed to improve the technical and financial conditions of utilities and pave the way for future privatisation