WATER MONOPOLISTS WERE REVEALED
Support A1+!The companies providing the residents of Armenia with drinking water have different tariffs for one cubic meter of water. For example, the company “Yerevan Water Pipeline” sells one cubic meter of water for 80 AMD, “Shirak Water Pipeline” – for 76 AMD and “Lori Water Pipeline” – for 91 AMD.
Ashot Shahnazaryan, the head of the RA Economic Competition Protection State Committee who was presiding over the usual session of the Committee wondered how the tariff was formed. The representatives of the companies providing people with water gave no answer to that question.
The committee has carried out investigations and found out that the above mentioned four companies are monopolists in their regions, that’s to say, they do not have competitors. But the companies who have cleared out the areas of their activity are facing a problem. A number of villages have been left out of the planning and are not provided with water by any company.
Each of the companies tries to explain away saying that they are not in charge of these villages. Nevertheless, all of them were asked to solve the problem as soon as possible.
