MASTER'S THESIS - SuSanA
MASTER'S THESIS - SuSanA
MASTER'S THESIS - SuSanA
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APPENDIX C – Site visits<br />
persons and every person has a water consumption of 150 l/day, the price per m 3 water consumed is<br />
around 51 ALL.) This tariff is said to be a little bit too high compared to the national level and the local<br />
income situation. As comparison, the average price in Albania is about 38 ALL/m 3 (Bibolli et al. 2011). An<br />
upgraded water supply system with water meters at the houses is constructed but not in operation because<br />
the connection pipe to the water reservoir is not built yet.<br />
3.1.2 Wastewater situation<br />
Municipality Shëngjin: For the area of Shëngjin town, a big wastewater treatment plant is constructed by<br />
financial means of World Bank and the Albanian Government, that is paying the VAT, and will start to work<br />
in 2012. Main problems of the municipality are experienced in the two villages Ishull Leizhë (IL) and Ishull<br />
Shëngjin (IS) where wastewater flows through the villages without any regulation. Big problems exist for the<br />
highschool in Ishull Leizhë where pupils get ill regularly. They even intervene with their own money to<br />
improve the water supply situation. Because the infrastructure is old, wastewater pipes are broken and<br />
wastewater leaks into the ground and therefore also into the groundwater layer what causes health<br />
problems, especially in the summer.<br />
Ishull Shëngjin: Some houses have septic tanks, but as the commune owns sucking vehicles with only 12 m<br />
hoses, not all tanks can be accessed by them. On average, emptying of the tank is necessary every second<br />
year. One sucking vehicle has the capacity to empty five to ten pits and costs around 10,000 ALL. This makes<br />
a price of around 500 to 1,000 ALL per family and year.<br />
The commune has only two vehicles what is said to be not sufficient. Therefore, some people use the<br />
service of private companies, where the tariff of service is assumed to be higher than for the communal<br />
service. If even the private vehicles have no access, people have to empty tanks manually.<br />
Figure C.12: Rain water channel of<br />
Ishull Shëngjin is only partly covered<br />
with wooden plates (Niebel 2011)<br />
Figure C.13: Rain water channel in<br />
the village Ishull Shëngjin (Niebel<br />
2011)<br />
The neighbourhood has a 300 m long rainwater channel (see Figure C.12 and Figure C.13) that is mostly<br />
covered by concrete slabs or wooden covers. Maintenance of that channel is done regularly. At the day of<br />
the site visit the channel was free of solids that could have blocked it. The channel is a remaining part of the<br />
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