Bulgaria Among The Five EU Countries With Least Water Resources

Restrictions in the water supply have been introduced for hundreds of thousands of Bulgarians because of the continuous drought, the delay in the construction of new dams and the wearing off the water supply network in Bulgaria, writes France press in a correspondence from Sofia.

There is water regime in 281 settlements in Bulgaria. State of emergency was announced in Panagyurishte on 25 August after three weeks without water and temperature over 30 degrees.

There is water shortage in the Black sea resorts after the tourist boom and the unbridled construction in the regions, where there are no water sources, sewerage and purification plants.

The stopping of the water supply is practically inevitable in many other regions of Central and West Bulgaria, where there are no dams and the water supply relies on reservoirs, claimed for AFP an expert from the Ministry of environment and waters.

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Source: News.bg

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