Chisinau water utility could remain without power again

Apa-Canal Chisinau (ACC), the city's main water supplier, runs the risk of remaining without electricity again, Vladimir Mocrac, department head at the utility, told the City Hall's ordinary meeting on Monday, Info-Prim Neo reports. The ACC's debt to Union Fenosa has dropped in the recent month from 15 to 5 million lei. But even so, the power utility warned it could unplug the ACC as of tomorrow. The ACC's daily income is of nearly 1 million lei. Once in several days the money is transferred to Union Fenosa. But the financial woes have aggravated at the water utility in the last three months, and on the date of 25 each month the ACC receives a warning note from Fenosa. To cut spendings by 3 million lei a month, the ACC reduced the working week by one day. By the end of the day the administration of the water supplier and the City Hall are to negotiate with Union Fenosa an extension on the debt deadline. In early May the debt row between the two utilities left parts of Chisinau without tap water for several days as Fenosa disrupted power supply to one of ACC's pumps. To settle the 15 million lei debt, the Chisinau City Council decided then to buy more shares in the ACC and provide it with the required money.