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  1. Balkans Suffering Worst Drought in 50 Years

    30 Aug 2012- 09:17 by Local Press Report SREBRENICA Fresh Plaza A long and severe drought, the worst in the past 50 years, is causing serious damage in the Balkans. Most of the crops were destroyed and this has made vegetables and other product prices sky ...

    Local Press Report - 08/30/2012 - 09:33

  2. Balkans Daces Worst Drought in 40 Years

    23 Aug 2012- 11:30 by Local Press Report SERBIA, BELGRADE The Associated Press Wildfires are destroying forests, rivers are being reduced to a trickle, crops are wilting on the scorched farmland and electricity supplies are running low. After the harshest ...

    Local Press Report - 08/23/2012 - 11:35

  3. Drought Has Balkan Farmers Upset Irrigation Networks Have Not Been Upgraded

    21 Aug 2012- 08:49 by Local Press Report KALESIJA Reuters As crops wilt and die in the Balkans, farmers struck down by a particularly harsh drought this year are rueing the region's failure to upgrade irrigation networks and invest in a long-term ...

    Local Press Report - 05/15/2013 - 16:32

  4. Drought Lowers Hydropower Output in Bosnia

    19 Jul 2012- 08:29 by Local Press Report SARAJEVO Reuters A prolonged drought lowered the hydro power output of Bosnia's top utility Elektroprivreda BiH (EPBiH) to 3,280 gigawatt-hours in the first half of 2012, 42 percent below target, a company ...

    Local Press Report - 05/15/2013 - 16:32

  5. Bosnia, Croatia Sign Deal for Joint Hydropower Plant

    16 Jul 2012- 09:19 by Local Press Report DUBROVNIK Reuters Bosnia's Serb Republic and neighbouring Croatia agreed on Friday to jointly build a 300 megawatt hydro power plant on Bosnia's Trebisnjica river in the south near the Croatian Adriatic ...

    Local Press Report - 07/16/2012 - 09:44

  6. Heat Wave Dries Wells in Bosnia

    5 Jul 2012- 09:22 by Local Press Report SANSKI MOST canada.com A heat wave in the Balkans with temperatures as high as 42 degrees Celsius (107.6 degrees Fahrenheit) has left some villages with dry wells and prompted governments to warn people to stay ...

    Local Press Report - 05/15/2013 - 16:32

  7. Serbia to Build 10 New Hydro Projects on Ibar River

    13 Apr 2012- 10:19 by Local Press Report BELGRADE Balkans.com Business News Full Story- Italian company Secci energy and Electric Power of Serbia will construct ten new hydropower plants on Ibar River. The value of the investment is nearly $400 million ...

    Local Press Report - 05/15/2012 - 14:22

  8. Drought Uncovers Cemetery in Bosnia

    21 Mar 2012- 22:02 by Local Press Report JABLANICKO LAKE euronews Ramiz Memidzan, 66, was a young boy when he last saw the village where he was born in southern Bosnia, before dam construction and the creation of Jablanicko Lake in the 1950s covered the ...

    Local Press Report - 05/15/2013 - 16:32

  9. Plava Voda Project to Start in 2012

    11 Jan 2012- 09:53 by Local Press Report SARAJEVO SeeNews Construction work on the Plava Voda project, which will provide secure, sufficient and sustainable water supply to five municipalities in Bosnia, is expected to start in 2012, according to WYG, the ...

    Local Press Report - 05/15/2013 - 16:32

  10. Bulgaria to Finish Eight Purification Plants by the End of 2011

    20 Apr 2011- 09:10 by OOSKAnews Correspondent Bulgaria, PLOVDIV Eight more purification plants will be completed and start operations in Bulgaria by the end of 2011, according to Minister of Environment and Water Nona Karadzhova.   Nine purification ...

    OOSKAnews Corre... - 05/15/2012 - 15:02

  11. Little Progress Made in Cleanup From Toxic Sludge Spill in Hungary: WWF

    13 Apr 2011- 09:30 by OOSKAnews Correspondent HUNGARY, BUDAPEST Areas severely damaged six months ago by a ruptured aluminum tailings dam near Ajka, Hungary have seen little of the cleanup and support promised by authorities, according to the ...

    OOSKAnews Corre... - 05/15/2012 - 15:04

  12. EBRD to Fund Timisoara Project

    25 Jan 2011- 19:00 by Local Press Report BUCHAREST, Romania Balkans.com Business News BUCHAREST | Source: Balkans.com Business News The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has provided a loan to S.C. Aquatim S. A. for a project ...

    Local Press Report - 05/24/2013 - 19:08

  13. Montenegro Dams Could Harm Water Ways, Says New WWF Report

    22 Jul 2009- 14:47 by OOSKAnews Correspondent PODGORICA, Montenegro Proposed dams on the Moraca River in Montenegro will likely harm the river and Lake Skadar, the largest lake in the Balkans, according to a new WWF and Green Home report. The study, " ...

    OOSKAnews Corre... - 01/13/2011 - 19:00

  14. Debar Restricts Water

    1 Jul 2008- 14:47 by OOSKAnews Correspondent Macedonia, DEBAR The heat wave that has hit the Balkans over the past weeks have worsened water problems in several regions of the country. Debar, a small city in western Macedonia along the Albanian border, ...

    OOSKAnews Corre... - 01/13/2011 - 18:00

  15. Mineral Water Company Devin Plans to Acquire 3 Other Companies

    5 May 2008- 23:41 by OOSKAnews Correspondent SOFIA, Bulgaria- Mineral water bottler Devin plans to acquire three other companies with similar businesses in the Balkans, according to Executive Director Tsvetan Lazhanski. Local press quoted Lazhanski as ...

    OOSKAnews Corre... - 01/14/2011 - 15:00

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