Increase in water prices and waste services warned

He has shown that in case there is any eventual increase in the price of water, the cost could go from one to two cents.

Xhafa claimed that it is intended to raise the price symbolically without burdening the lives of citizens.

The “may potentially have an increase of 1 cents or 2 cents, but in the total in the bill or in the consumer's pocket the maximum maximum one can reflect on 1015 cents, which is extremely small but we still can't confirm this because our tendency is to increase the price symbolically and to burden citizens' livelihood, but to cover the share of the expenses we have as companies<1>

Xhafa also stressed that the share of water payment fees is assigned by the Regulatory Authority for Waters.

And we don't actually set tariffs, and all we do is send out the costs that we do the tariffs and this is the year of tariffs because the tariffs by regulatory authority are assigned every three years and this year we're still in procedure. The authority is treating not only for Pristina's regional water pipeline, but for all water pipelines in Kosovo”.

The same is true of Regional Company “Cleaning”. Arbnor Ademi spokesperson for this company in a proposal for Online Economics, has indicated that the current bill is solid and accessible to citizens and that for a eventual rise is under discussion.

“Of course that compared to the bills of other institutions or public debts that we as citizens owe to our state to pay, the waste bill is quite solid and accessible to all citizens. As for the increase in the waste bill, it is under discussion even though this is not decided by the regional waste company”.

Of course, this would have to be discussed through the panel of shareholders of respective municipalities where the cleaning company performs service and then adopt such a change so that a regulation will be implemented by our companies and entities”.

She added that if this happens, this would be in the interest of their own company, because they work through their own forces.

Of course, if that happened, it would be in the interest of our company, knowing that we as companies function with self-finance, which means that all the bills that we run through the forces and personal capacities”.

By September of this year, world markets and at the same time, Kosovo is facing rising prices of food products. According to the Statistics Agency, only last month's prices have been raised for 4.9%.