Aqua warns severe reductions, some municipalities risk being left without water

Aqua warns severe reductions, some municipalities risk being left without water

Eight Kosovo municipalities -- the Pristina municipality, Lipjan, Obilic, Kosovo Fushe, Podujevo, Shtime, Drinas and Gracanica -- which are supplied with drinking water from Regional Water “Pristina” are at risk of facing severe water reductions due to the decline of the level in concussive lakes due to high temperatures and lack of rainfall [...]

Eight Kosovo municipalities -- the Pristina municipality of Lipjan, Obilik, Fushe Kosova, Podujevo, Shtime, Drenas and Gracanica -- which are supplied with drinking water from Regional Water “Pristina” -- are at risk of facing more severe water reductions due to the decline of the level in concussive lakes due to high temperatures and lack of rainfall.

Currently, reductions have been warned about the Lipjan municipality, but it does not rule out the possibility that if there is not enough rainfall, this week there will be reductions in other areas as well.

Despite warnings, though, some of the eight municipalities have no alternative to providing water for their citizens except the water supply. CRU “Pristina”

The Lipjan municipality in response to news.net has accused the Regional Company “Pristina” that it has no longer co-operated in opening new water supply sources.

The spokesman for this municipality, Didima Bajray, has said these demands have repeatedly addressed, but have found no understanding.

He also said that they have no option but to water, since they have no other water sources.

They can't use any reason for water failure. We have a long time since as a municipality we've offered you the readiness to invest with them with opening new wells with new wells and order the defects that have been in measuring the water supply network. We've been addressing these requests from time to time, but we haven't found understanding. Another responsibility for the Aqua is that any consumers with the watermaker are also affected by one more euro for network maintenance and sanitation that they never go out to repair. That's why the municipality has to deal with the sewer network and that's what's under their charge - repair of defects. We have a CDU project for a piece of villages. But strategy other than water supply we don't. We're offering co-operation with the defective water pipeline and supply citizens, another option we're not knowing because we don't have other water sources”, Bajray said.

Pristina municipality deputy head Muhedin Nushi, in an intelligence on news.net has said they have not anticipated other water supply sources for Pristina citizens, but he says he believes there will be no reduction due to recent days of rainfall

“The reductions have been warned, but there will be no large reductions due to the sale of rainfall, so the level of Badovci and Batlava have grown sharply and I don't believe there will be reductions. As for other sources of supply, they are not money. With President Ahmeti we discussed, but you have certainly misunderstood the mayor that there are no other sources, but citizens not to worry that the capital will not be without water. As every year and this year, there will be regular supplies. But that spending should be maximum on the part of the citizens not to use for how we saw last year, so that auto washers can use regional water-water supply”, Nushi said.

While the head of the Shtime municipality, Naim Ismajli, has told news.net, says the municipality he leads is not exposed to the risk of reductions because they have underground resources.

“I believe there's no reason for reductions in the entry, we'll talk to them about warning, because we have underground resources. So we will not submit to any Pristina regime because it has reason because of lake waters, they are exposed to danger. While we've found underground waters, they're wells, so we don't expect to have any reductions of”, Ishmael said.

It does not believe they will have water reductions from the “Pristina”, says the Podujevo municipality's deputy head, Nedmedin Rudari.

Rudari has told the news that this municipality is supplied from two sources, so the citizens of Podujevo would not, according to him, face a lack of drinking water.

The Podujevo municipality is supplied by two sources, supplied by the Peran well a part of the city, and the rest of the city and the rest of the villages are supplied by the Batlava water supply. Right now if there's no extreme drought, I guess we don't have this problem, but they're experts and they believe it's gonna take days. The level has risen, though it has not reached its maximum quota. But it has to be worked with municipal institutions, with the company monitoring the waste of water by penalty those who misusing and misusing drinking water. We're hoping that the situation in the lake will not get worse, now we don't know how long the drying period will last. I can't believe we're gonna have a problem this year.

On the other hand, Fushe Kosovo municipality spokesman Ali Topalli has told the news.net that this municipality has no alternative since the Regional Company “Pristina” is competent and is the main factor that gets drinking water supply.

“We have no alternative since Regional Company “Pristina” is competent and is the main factor that gets access to drinking water, not just in Fushe Kosova, but for the whole region. It's their strategy, because we can't do any other options now because we don't have any other gear. We don't have any warning about what happens even though we haven't officially got anything yet. For years we have opened wells in many places, and now much of them are supplied. Regional water pipeline company “Pristina” supplies the town of Fushe Kosovo, but not the entire territory of Kosovo, so we can see what we will do”, Topalli has said.

In the municipality of Obilics, they have said they have not received official reports from the CRU “Pristina, so according to them after there is official reduction notice they will function the supply strategy so that the citizens of Obilici can have regular supply with drinking water.

“The Obilic Community Emergency Public Services Director, there is no official announcement from the CRU “Pristina” that will have severe reductions, this way after contact with CRU “Pristina” we have received confirmation that they will not apply water supply reductions to Obilic in this phase, so that we as the Obilic municipality always co-ordination and co-operation with the CRluxPristina <256> since the official recommendation strategy for the supply that citizens have regularly supplied with water, well, well, well, well, Arbasa.

Otherwise, it has been warned that lakes levels do not promise sustainable supply for the following part of the year.

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