{"id":18934,"date":"2021-08-19T14:01:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T12:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=18934"},"modified":"2021-08-19T17:22:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T15:22:57","slug":"residents-of-rajca-complain-of-water-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/residents-of-rajca-complain-of-water-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents of Rajca complain of water shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many Albanian citizens, residents of the Rajca village, have raised concerns about the insufficient drinking water supply, especially during the hot days of August, a problem that according to them has been going on for more than a month.<\/p>\n<p>They say that their lives have been severely hampered by the water shortage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is nothing we can do! We have bought single-use plastic plates, because we do not have water to wash the dishes. Our children came to visit from Greece and they had to leave the country with their laundry unwashed,\u201d argues one of the citizens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no water, we don\u2019t have access to drinking water either,\u201d another citizen says worryingly.<\/p>\n<p>In the village of Sutaj alone there are 130 families suffering the lack of water in their houses.<\/p>\n<p>Migrants that have come to visit their homeland say that they do not even have water to take a shower.<\/p>\n<p>Although in the village a brand-new water supply was built, with an estimated value of 6 million euros investment throughout the years, residents say that there is still no tap water in their homes.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ylli Aka, head of the Water Supply and Sewerage system in Prrenjash, dismisses the claims of the residents saying that the supply system is not functioning properly due to the draughts in the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResidents of this village have had a scheduled access to tap water for a minimum of two to three weeks, and this is due to the decrease of the source inflows from where the water is taken,\u201d Mr. Alla explains.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/08\/18\/17-active-wildfires-in-albania-7-of-them-newly-broke-out\/\">17 active wildfires in Albania, 7 of them are new<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/08\/17\/albania-sees-increase-in-trade-bringing-in-numbers-higher-than-the-last-3-years\/\">Albania sees increase in trade bringing in numbers higher than the last 3 years<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/albania\/2021\/08\/18\/delta-strain-amplifies-infections-in-albania-kosovo-and-north-macedonia\/\">Delta strain amplifies infections in Albania, Kosovo and North Macedonia<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Albanian citizens, residents of the Rajca village, have raised concerns about the insufficient drinking water supply, especially during the hot days of August, a problem that according to them has been going on for more than a month. They say that their lives have been severely hampered by the water shortage. \u201cThere is nothing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":18935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Residents of Rajca complain of water shortage - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/residents-of-rajca-complain-of-water-shortage\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Residents of Rajca complain of water shortage - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Many Albanian citizens, residents of the Rajca village, have raised concerns about the insufficient drinking water supply, especially during the hot days of August, a problem that according to them has been going on for more than a month. 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