R.Conti, K.Witek, S.Spang, A.Dubas and P.G.Nembrini

In March 1993, the inhabitants of Sarajevo found themselves in a precarious situation: as supplies were so irregular, they had to run the gauntlet of shelling and snipers in order to find water at wells or distribution ramps supplied by tanker trucks.
At the end of 1993, the British Red Cross started a programme to rehabilitate one of the systems feeding Sarajevo by gravity, the Jahorina-Brus-Bristica system, supplying 10% of the water used by Sarajevo prior to the war. The state of the system remained precarious, and needed constant attention, because much of the pipeline ran through unstable ground.
At beginning of 1994 the security situation in Sarajevo improved significantly and an emergency repair programme could be initiated. In this paper we describe what has been done recently to reconstruct the system, in order to ensure a regular supply to about 20000 people living in the old town of Sarajevo and the surrounding hills.

A case study on the water supply problems of the town of Sarajevo has also been added from the report of the symposium on water in armed conflicts organized by the ICRC in November 1994

Right button “Former Yugoslavia: Water supply in Sarajevo and Srebrenica”

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