The state brings water to the door of strategic investors/ The second phase of the tender for the villages in the South is opened

2024-04-09 07:35:00, Aktualitet CNA

The state brings water to the door of strategic investors/ The second phase of

The project for the water supply of some villages in the South, where permits were mainly granted for strategic investments, has passed to the second phase.

The National Water and Sewerage Agency opened this week the procedure with the object "Water supply to coastal areas; Strategic Investment Areas Draleos, Drimadhe and Dhërmi of the Municipality of Himara, Phase II" with a limited fund of 372 million ALL, or about 3.6 million euros.

This procedure is a continuation of the one opened at the end of last year, where in the first phase, the limit fund provided at that time was 743 million ALL, or more than 7 million euros.

According to the documents accompanying the project, it includes the entire area announced through the Decision of the National Council of the Territory No. 2, Date 16.10.2017 "Area of ??strategic investments in places of national importance for the development of tourism" Draleos-Drimadhes-Dhermi, listing the projects from Palasa to Dhërmi.

The document also makes an assessment of the resources these areas currently have. Earlier, the same calculations indicated that a water supply capacity of no less than 290 l/s would be required to cope with the flow of tourists.

"The request is to provide a quantity of no less than 290 l/s, which will be used to supply water to the new tourist complexes in the village of Palas through a new water supply system. The amount of 290 l/s is predicted for the peak of tourists during the hot season of the year, where in addition to an amount of 150 l/s per resident, a much larger amount of water is needed. This amount consists in the overpopulation of the area, especially along the coastline.

A tourist normally takes 30% more water than usual. If we also add the amount of water for the needs of public tourist services, the expectation for the expansion, or the construction of other tourist complexes, then the rate per tourist goes over 250 l/s; thus the necessary and required amount of 290 l/s is more than argued. We also take into account the losses in the network calculated at no less than 20-30%", it is stated in the technical-hydrological report of the project.

The document underlined that there is a need for intervention in the source of "Izvor" to ensure the amount of 290 l/s. Therefore, he states that for this purpose, the construction of a new catchment is needed in the southern part of the collecting channel of the source's effluents.

Strategies of tourist villages

Over the years, the government, through the Strategic Investments Committee, has granted status to a number of investments that, although designed as tourist complexes, in a good number of cases have ended up in residential villa complexes.

By benefiting from the status, investors gain ease both in obtaining land and in easing bureaucratic procedures, but also investments related to infrastructure and access to energy and water, something that is being applied in this case as well./ Monitor Magazine