Croatia needs to invest about 21 billion kuna in the water supply system and preservation of freshwater resources in the next ten years.
The company annually collects about 600,000 kuna in water contributions, which should increase to about a half billion kuna.
According to Rajnovic, 75 percent of Croatian households are connected to the public water supply networks, and the country should raise this percentage to 90-95 percent in the next ten years. About 10 billion kuna should be ensured for this purpose.
"Our duty is to enable every Croatian citizen to have drinking water from the water supply system," Rajnovic added.
He said that in the next ten years Croatia should invest about 12 billion kuna to ensure that sewerage systems have water purification installations.
In Croatia, water losses are about 44 percent, while a threshold tolerance is below 20 percent.
Water irrigation systems currently cover about 9,000 hectares of arable land, while the potential is to have 250,000 hectares irrigated.
In Croatia, the average price of water is seven kuna per cubic metre, which is half the average European price, Rajnovic said, announcing a gradual rise in water price in the country.
(1 EUR = 7.3 kuna)