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Dilijan's water comes through Veolia Jur (Վեոլիա Ջուր), the national operator, under a concession that runs to 2032. Supply is normally continuous — there is no rationing schedule in force here. A national 17-hour schedule announced to start on 1 May 2026 was suspended before it took effect.
What Dilijan does get is emergency cuts: roughly twice a month a burst or repair takes out a cluster of streets, and sometimes the whole town — the last full-town cut ran about 24 hours over 7–8 July 2026. In late winter (late January to March) the sources themselves run short and cuts become more frequent. A power cut can also stop the pumps: in April 2026 an electricity outage took the water down with it — if your lights are off too, the town’s power board is the faster read.
Cuts are announced in Armenian, usually with the affected streets listed, on the VeoliaJur Telegram channel and on veolia.am. If your tap is dry, check the board below first — it tells you whether it's just your building or the whole sector — then call Veolia's 1-85 hotline.
These reports come from neighbours, not the water utility. Anyone can read the board; reporting no water takes a free account, which keeps it honest. A report clears itself after about 12 hours, so the board stays current on its own. When several people report the same sector, it’s likely the whole sector is dry — not just one tank.
Where the water comes from
The town is fed by mountain sources inside and around Dilijan National Park. In late winter (late January to March 2026) those sources ran short and cuts became more frequent. Heavy rain and spring snowmelt stir the same sources, so after a storm the tap can run turbid for a while.
The water utility — Veolia Jur (Վեոլիա Ջուր)
The national water operator, running Dilijan's network under a concession to 2032. The 1-85 hotline takes cut and burst reports; outage notices (Armenian only) are published on this page. The old vjur.am site and its outage map are gone — it now just redirects here.
The fastest channel for cut notices, in Armenian. This link is the public preview filtered to posts mentioning Dilijan (Դիլիջան) — no Telegram account needed. The unfiltered channel is t.me/s/VeoliaJur.
Tap water here is normally fine, but after heavy rain or during snowmelt it can run turbid — when it does, residents boil it or switch to bottled water until it clears.