Prime Minister Edi Rama has promised to provide Albanians with non-stop running water within one year starting from his third mandate, if he wins the April 2021 elections.
Rama said his government has continuously improved the situation with drinking ta water in Albanians’ homes, but in 2022, one year into his third term, even most of the rural areas with have running tap water 24/7.
“The infrastructure for drinking water Infrastructure – a battle lasting for many decades, which we are winning step by step only thanks to the effort of this government, with 128 construction sites open from north to south, which will guarantee 24 hours drinking water in 52 urban areas of the country in 2021, and 70 other construction sites that will open in the spring, to extend the supply 24/7 to over 200 most populated rural areas, in 2022,” Rama promised during a press conference on Friday in Tirana.
It comes on Rama’s eight year in power, and following similar promises during the 2013 election campaign and afterwards.
In 2013, when he was in opposition, he blamed the government for not providing non-stop running water, and for asking for a third mandate to fix the problem.
“Well, my friends, there is no greater shame than to appear before your people and blame the opposition after 8 years in government, after you promised them 8 years ago that within a year you will solve the 24/7 drinking water problem,” Rama stated in one of his speeches during the 2013 election campaign.
