The pipeline warns reductions due to lack of rainfall

From the Regional Water Company “Pristina”, they said the situation in these two lakes is not good.

The chief executive head of the CRU “Pristina”, Ilir Abdullahu, has said the water level is minus 10m.

“currently Badovci's capacity is 26 million cubic metres, so it's an array that depends only on rainfall and snow”.

“Citizens need to understand that Lake Badovci and Batlava are not built on any sustainable river flow that will sustain that constant stability and not present a problem, but the moment when these lakes are dependent on atmospheric rainfall, then there are years of repetition that we can call years of drought below average, and that affects us by taking water and not recovering, then these levels have made us drop below 10x1.

We started off in 2017, otherwise these levels would be almost the same level as Prelepnica Lake, so with the situation at Gjilan”, he said”, he said.

Another major problem for the company is consumer debt, which totals 47m euros.

The latter have called on consumers to be responsible and to use drinking water fairly, otherwise they say they will be obliged to begin with reductions.

Abdullahu, has said of Online Economy, that debts date back to 2000.

“CRU Pristina, seeing it as the largest company, debts and consumption are of enormous size. Consumer debt for KRU Pristina, without sharing in periods or locations, amounts to 47m euros, dating back to 2000x1>.

So we're doing our best that consumers at least when they already have a 24-hour drink water supply, it's good to move and these obligations that have to pay off to the company, because the company would then turn into capital investments”, he said.

Another bad phenomenon is even water misuse, where according to Abdullah, is done in rural areas rather than in the city.

“Kestum use is a phenomenon which has been present for 20 years, as a result of non-editation and a part that it uses for different purposes of benefits or even for at least something to do with drinking water. Whether for land construction or irrigation, especially in rural countries that are far away from the centre and from the possibility of daily control and these rural areas are opted for garden irrigation abuses or other agricultural cultures”, he said.

We seek from consumers to save drinking water. Even during this period when requirements must be much smaller compared to summer periods. The drinking water is only for the needs that are dedicated, and always by using water and thinking that the levels in these Lakes are the two main reserves that supply Pristina with environments and preserve it and we hope that the rainfall is due in the spring, on the contrary, we are also in a test of some reductions, but these reductions will only be as far as pressures are concerned that we simply benefit little in the water supply of drink, but with time I believe that if this period continues, then we will come up with a plan of reductions, say,

Warnings of water reductions are seen as disturbing by citizens.

Agim Rexhepi, who is chairman of the Association “America's Minster”, tells Online Economy that this project is global and not just Kosovo's.

I can only at the beginning that this fact is disturbing, not now. This fact is being repeated over the years. True, it is not just Kosovo's problem, but it is a global problem and it is not as disturbing at the moment as it will be in the next 20 years. I think Kosovo institutions should take into account this issue and commit to forming other feathers and find other ways that groundwater can certainly have, so institutions should act this direction”, he said.

The disturbing fact is for citizen Mehmet Haxhiu as well. It says that even citizens' abuses are causing needless water to be exhausted.

This case is of course disturbing. What do we have to do? The natural power is, it is neither snow nor rain. It wasn't right to abuses, but people are using it, unfortunately”, he said.

Meanwhile, for warnings of water reductions, it says that happening in the 21st century is absurd.