Rama warns prison for citizens who do not pay water

The event on the ground will begin with a sense of how citizens are placed clocks and then with door-to-door control for paying back bills.

After 20 days, working groups will break off illegal ties that violate the supply of drinking water. The law provides for prison for those citizens, who interfere with the water distribution network, as control groups have severed the link.

Energy Minister Damian Gjiknuri, in the letter he sent to municipalities and water-canalisation companies in December, explained that the second phase would be accompanied by door-to-door searches and punishment measures for those who do not pay water bills.

“In the second phase of the action, consisting of verifying the formalism of the service of every door-to-door subscribers, water-to-meal equipment of all subscribers, and taking measures to advance responsibility for countervatives and violators, which interfere with the water supply network”, the minister's letter said.

The action will start with verifying contracts, clocks and public and budgetary and not budgetary fees, later with administration, business and family employees, writes “Panorama”.

The government, in co-operation with municipalities for family members who have heavy water bill obligations, will offer extenuating schemes for paying installments. The scheme will be the same as for the duties of light bills, where citizens must link deal with water-canalation agreements to pay their heavy obligations.

From the data provided by the Water Regulatory Administration, citizens have been supplied with water on average, 11.4 hours a day. But concern remains the high level of losses, where 67 percent of the water is lost because of the amortized network. This indicator, for at least four years, remains at no good levels and constitutes the main concern in the sector. Covering with the city's water supply service is 90 percent, and 62.7 percent in the village.