
Tirana is supplied with drinking water only 5 hours a day. In some areas, water from the water supply pipes flows for only 3 hours, 1 in the morning, 1 in the afternoon, and 1 in the evening.
In buildings built before the '90s, the situation is more problematic, as they do not have large underground deposits, but only those on terraces.
The capital is supplied with fixed schedules: some neighborhoods have twice a day, mainly in the morning, at 06:30 or in the evening at 19:00 to 21:00. Some other neighborhoods are supplied three times, but citizens say it is insufficient.
But there are also areas, those in the suburbs, where the population has increased at a rapid pace, that have not been supplied for days.
The lack of drinking water is affecting not only the residents, but also the thousands of tourists who visit Tirana every day. Many of those who are accommodated on Airbnb in old mansions do not even manage to bathe.
Tirana is developing rapidly, but it is the only capital in the region and Europe that has this scandalous level of water supply. The data provided by TV Klan shows that our capital is in last place.
Prishtina, which is in second place, has 16 to 20 hours of water a day. Other capitals such as Skopje, Podgorica, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Sofia or Athens have 24-hour water without interruption.
The Water Supply and Sewerage Company in Tirana claims that the water is distributed according to a certain schedule, but it did not make available to the public the schedules during which it supplies water to the neighborhoods of the capital.