Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country with plenty of clean drinking water, but there is no tap water in Lukavac. Lukavac residents use cloudy tap water exclusively for washing and cleaning. For drinking, cooking, and even bathing, they buy or take water from the surrounding springs. Although there has been an idea to solve this problem for years, the project to build a water factory is still in the draft stage.
Amer Atic from Lukavac is one of thousands of Lukavac residents who have been listening to promises for years. Promises that one day they will have clean and drinkable water in the taps in their homes. He tells that he has been using water from the surrounding springs all his life. He also believes that the possible processing of water from Lake Modrac is not a high-quality solution.
“We have so many springs in Ozren that there is no need for that factory and that we process garbage from the lake. Sewagedrains into the lake. The mine from Banovic flows into the lake, the sewage is purified and there are clean springs,” Amer points out.
The first man of Lukavac states that the residents’ criticisms are justified, but he points out that for such projects it is necessary to carefully select the technology and process parameters. The result of everything must be quality water at an economically justified price.
“Unfortunately, Lukavac is a local community that does not have a quality spring of drinking water for its citizens, and we decided to use Toplice, shallow wells, to try to ensure as much water as possible to ensure that we do not take lake water, but it appears that in some critical periods we will be forced to take lake water”, says Edin Delic, mayor of Lukavac (SD).
“It’s a big job. Whether it will be a year or two, we don’t know. There is a lot of work ahead of us, so we will certainly bring that drinking water to the citizens in the taps”, says Adnan Kunic, acting director of JP Vodovod i Kanalizacija (VIK d.o.o.)Lukavac.
The mayor of Lukavac states that due to the privatization process, they were forced to pay more than half a million marks to protect the plot of land planned for the construction of the factory in bankruptcy proceedings. At the beginning of this year, a tender was announced for the design of the factory.
E.Dz.
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