Because of overdue bills the electric utility Union Fenosa is warning the water company Apa-Canal Chisinau (ACC) to disrupt power supply to the wastewater treatment station providing the city with tap water. And since the warning notes are sent on an every day basis, the disconnection could happen at any moment, says ACC director Constantin Becciev. “The ACC administration is taking all the possible and impossible measures to avoid such a situation in the run-up to the July 29 elections”, Becciev told Info-Prim Neo. The ACC director stated at the meeting of the Chisinau Municipal Council (CMC) on Thursday the only real solution to the impasse would be to raise water rates and lessen the differentiation between the household and the commercial use of water, given the economic crisis facing the country. “It depends on the CMC whether Chisinau will have water or not”, he stated. Becciev also said that because the municipality failed to adjust the rates for the heat supplies last winter the ACC incurred losses of 60 million lei, including 10 million lei in 2008. He stated the ACC had already sued the CMC for compensation. Because of the fact that the working week was cut by one day, the payroll was contracted and perquisites were suspended, the company's union organization is set out to hold a strike to protest these violations of the collective employment agreement, Becciev complained. Following lengthy debates, the city councilors limited themselves to setting up a commission to examine the situation at the ACC, without promising any immediate subsidies to alleviate its burning problems. Earlier the wastewater treatment facilities were repeatedly cut off from electricity, leaving parts of Chisinau without tap water for several days.