In response to reports on the issue of water supply to a residential complex in Chloraka, the Department of Water Development (DAY) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment, clarifies the following:
[*]On 17 January 2022, a group of residents living in a residential complex in Chloraka, held a meeting outside the District Office of TAY in Paphos, delivering a letter requesting the supply of water directly from TAY and the implementation of Article 19 of the Single Water Management Law. [*]After examination of the request and investigation of all relevant parameters, it was found that the request cannot be granted, for the following reasons:
- The WUA does not have an infrastructure near the complex in question in order to be able to implement Article 19 of the Unified Water Management Act. In addition, the Article in question provides that the Director of the Public Works Department may, in exceptional cases, enter into agreements for the supply of water for human consumption directly to authorised consumers, conditions which do not apply in this case.
- According to the Law on Communities and the Building Permit of the complex in question, the water supply of this complex falls within the competence of the Local Water Supply Authority, which in this case is the Community Council of Chloraka. Due to large financial debts (from water purchases) of the owner company of the complex, the Community Council proceeded, in 2018, to cut off the water supply and initiated legal proceedings for the repayment of the debt.
- Since then, the water needs of the complex have been met by the owner company in violation of the terms of the Building Permit and the law in general, since it is not an authorized water supplier.
TAY has already sent a response letter to the affected residents, explaining the above.
(MAK)
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