MASTER'S THESIS - SuSanA

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