Kosovo without water, but gives permission for 70 hydropower plants

Even the few rivers it has, Kosovo will soon destroy with the construction of hydreocentrals in them. A Document That Has Provided Periscope, shows how the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning -- the Regional Authority of the River Lakes, respectively -- has in the procedure of licensing no less than 63 hydropower plants.

According to the document that Periscope provided, it is seen how the plants that are in the licensing procedure will target (destruction) such rivers as Lepenci, Bistrica, Lumbardi, and many other rivers.

And with this project, almost all municipalities with a single river will be affected. As seen in the document, these hydropower plants are intended to operate in: Peja, Decani, Kacanik, Mitrovica, Llap, etc.

We remember that during February 2019, it was protested against such a project by Rugova's residents, a project designed to threaten Lumbardhin via a hydropower plant.

Even in 2017 it was Kachanic who had protested the construction of a hydropower plant on the Lepenc River.

A report by the organisation Riverwatch”, which deals with the protection of rivers in the Balkans, highlighted the risk of multiple hydro power plants in Balkan countries, resulting in river destruction.

As for Kosovo, lack of drinking water is alarming. Not a single day goes by that not only in other areas, but also the capital, Pristina, and its surrounding area as Fushesh Kosova, have no water shortages.

A Kosovo Statistics Agency report two years ago found that 70 percent of the population is supplied with water through public systems, while about 29 percent are supplied by personal systems. At the same time, 0.7 percent of citizens have no water supply services available.

There is also the World Bank, which through a report last year, has been alarmed that in the next 20 years, waterways in Kosovo such as Drini, Ibri, Morava and Lepenci will be faced with water reduction in demand./Periscopi/