The Water Services Corporation’s failure to submit documents to the resources authority according to established timeframes has landed it in hot water.
The Malta Resources Authority issued an enforcement order last Friday giving the WSC seven days to regularise its position. If not, it may impose an administrative fine.
The documents consist of eight reports, contracts and statements. According to the MRA’s letter to the corporation, they include an Emergency Response Plan, Licence Monitoring reports, a Leakage Control Plan and Accounting Records and Statements.
The letter, addressed to WSC’s chairman Louis Giordimaina, says that despite having been given further extensions on “several occasions”, the WSC “has not carried out the required actions”.
It added that the submissions were obligatory as outlined in the corporation’s licence to supply water through the public water distribution network and provide sewerage services.
All the reports were originally due by June or July but their deadlines were each extended with a final submission date ranging from October to December. The MRA, however, has received none of the submissions or information required.
No more information has yet been forthcoming.