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After Albania was submerged in water in the first days of January, Prime Minister Edi Rama was reminded to clean the drainage channels. Although in the last month there was continuous information from the international agency about the wave of bad weather that would engulf the country, the floods showed that no preventive measures had been taken and institutions at the local and central levels proved unprepared.
While commenting on the flooding situation at the meeting with mayors, Rama announced the establishment of a fleet dedicated to the maintenance and cleaning of drainage infrastructure.
He stated that this fleet will be realized through a fund of 20 million euros that has been made available to our country by the United Arab Emirates. The Prime Minister emphasized that this fleet can concentrate more forces somewhere where there is an emergency situation, and municipalities will feel more prepared to cope with the emergency.
"Another element that affects is the level of resistance of the defensive infrastructure, canals, hydropower. It has increased significantly in the last 10 years, but the analysis made also by this emergency shows that there are points where resistance is weaker. For this reason, we must very precisely set the milestones to further strengthen the defensive infrastructure and, on the other hand, to address those aspects that have to do with strengthening the interaction between the ruling power and central institutions.
One of the things that Minister Demo has proposed and that has found our support is that with a fund provided by our friends in the United Arab Emirates of 20 million euros in support of rural development, we can purchase a significant amount of equipment to be placed at the service of drainage, cleaning the main drainage channels and to function according to the needs of the municipalities.
"This fleet can concentrate more forces somewhere where there is an emergency situation and municipalities will feel more prepared to deal with the emergency and on normal working days there will be an additional fleet for all municipalities according to the amount of canals to be cleaned and maintained, as needed to address the problem of embankments," said Rama.
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