Untrusted water, quality of drinking water reaches 99.28 percent

Based on the IKSHPK's annual report on Kosovo's quality of drinking water, water quality has improved year-on-year, with 78% now in 2019 reaching 998.8%.

Co-ordinator from the Water Monitoring Centre for Drink at the National Institute of Public Health, Burbuke Nushi-Latifi told Online Economy that IKSHPK has the capacity needed to analyze water samples until laboratory data on chemical and bacterial parameters result within pre-standard standards with regulation for water quality for drink. According to it, the frequency is determined by water supply until it announced that 1015 water monitoring samples are worked every day in Pristina.

There's a test lab center at the institute where there's a lab analysis, four labs with specific parameters for monitoring water quality, where all are accredited. The water monitoring centre where planning or monitoring plans are conducted and the conveying of water quality to daily bases. In Pristina, the frequency is determined on the basis of administrative instruction 16/2012, which has transformed the European directive into our legislation. Calculating the amount of water being introduced into a certain supply water area, the amount determines the frequency, where in Pristina on a daily basis, 1015 samples are worked, until small quantities of dragons and frequency is rare once a week. Bacterology is worked on all points every day, and chemistry works 60 %s of them”.

The IKSHP guarantees for water quality, and according to them, drinking water is within water monitoring standards.

According to Nushi-Latif, the whole team consumes water from the water supply until it even mentioned four-year-old nieces who are water supply consumers.

“Institute guarantees and conveys water quality. We're in charge of the faucets where the citizen consumes the water. Based on 2015-2019 reports, quality within pre-standards and each year quality is better. Total compliance 2015 has been 78 percent until this year is 99.28%. Drinking water in Pristina from the central water supply systems is within preemptive standards for monitoring drinking water. The team he led and all collaborators consumed the water and laughed at the oath even four-year-old nieces consume the same”, Nushi-Latifi said of Online Economics.

Even the Regional Water Company “Pristina”, from which they supply drinking water to nearly half a million Kosovo residents, guarantees citizens that the water they distribute is quality and drinkable.

Water Quality Department Executive Manager Sabrie Spahiu in a proposal for Online Economy stressed that water processing is at the maximum level. According to her, water quality is 99.9% within drinking water standards.

“The “Pristina” is supplied by three surface sources, Lake Badaovci, Batislava, and by Weyman Lake taken through the Iber-Lepence Canal. Water is drinking, processing is at the maximum water level. The factories are in good condition, the technological processes are all carried out as required by untreated water requirements. Parameters made after treatment and quality are 99.9 percent within the standard for drinking water under administrative instruction number 16/2012”. Spahiu has told of cases of suspicion he may face during his trial, whether of turbulence or tube decay, which he said are controlled, intervented and improved the case.

“During the testing of parameters if we face a parameter exceeds the value, whether we are troubled then we take measures in the factory, first we locate the problem, and we act on taking additional samples, doing additional tests to prove whether it was random or really. If it's random, it can affect a breach, repair of a tube. Everything is controlled and intervened where we can improve”.

Spahiu stressed that ambalized water is less safe because of conditions, temperatures, 1-year-olds, and staying in plastic bottles until the water is moved every second and monitored and chlorinated.

The ambalized and aquifer's <x0W is from sources, but the essence is that ambalated water depends on the conditions it preserves, it's very important to keep the temperature and the deadline that is up to a year long plus in plastic bottles. I'm sure I consume the water from the aquifer because I know it's moving every second and it's under surveillance, it's chlorinated, it's safe for a drink”, says Spahiu for EO.