Apart from electricity, Serbs don't even pay water

Following the signing of the agreement with Switzerland, the Swiss ambassador, together with the prime minister, attended the meeting of the International Water Council.

This council stressed the need to work further on water treatment and management.

Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj thanked the Swiss people for the support given in this regard, the Online Economy reports.

“I take the opportunity to say thank you to the people of Switzerland for such powerful support that it is many million in Kosovo's water management and operation. News that 87 percent of households in Kosovo have clean, running drinking water is really important at the same time that four of the sewage plants in four centres -- at Peja, Prizren, Gjakova, and the fourth in Pristina -- are under construction, and three are under way, with a lot of”.

We know that much more is ahead of us than what I mean today is not only a meeting of the assessment of the situation but also of the commitment to the coming time”.

Switzerland's Ambassador Jean Hwbert Lebet said he is very happy to participate in this water commission.

He added that he is also pleased with all projects, which are planned for treatment and operation with the waters in Kosovo.

Lebet further praised Kosovo's institutions for taking the measures in a regulatory way to work in this process.

While Minister of Economic Development Valdrin Luka said that investments would have to be directed to improve networks to calculate the loss of drinking water, which according to him is about 44 percent of all water. I believe that even an important topic is investment in the improvement of networks because we have a huge loss of drinking water loss in the water supply network that achieves a 44 percent value of water that is a huge loss and a challenge”.

Luka also mentioned the problems of water in the north that she said the north is supplied with water, but no one enters it.

Northern Serbs don't even pay electricity.

The dedication to handle the waters in Kosovo also expressed Environment and Spatial Planning Minister Albena Resiti.

All the ministries of the line that have the responsibility to deal with water are committed to working with all the donors I want to thank for doing an extraordinary job in treating drinking water”.