Cities networking and water protection is the main topic of the project. Within the framework of seven events of the project, which is supported by the Europe for Citizens program, partners They exchange good practices, network and plan further joint projects.
From June 14 to 16, 2018, the Society for Rural Development Laz, the Slovenian partner in the H2O WR project, hosted forty participants in Litija from June 14 to 16, 2018, from Serbian Ruma, Croatian Našice, Czech Prague 9, Bulgarian reason and Hungary bake. The mayors of partner cities also attended the meeting from five countries.
In Litija, the organizer of the event highlighted the need to protect groundwater on the example of the Amiiga project and the city of Ljubljana. Providing drinking water from the tap without chlorination and other measures is, of course, the goal of all local communities.
Proposal solutions also presented the problem of leaking contaminated mining water into the Sava River. Many times, financial resources are an obstacle to not doing more to protect water, there are solutions.
With waste water treatment systems, representatives of cities got to know each other in almost every partner city, including Litija. The central biological treatment plant for 9000 PE is newer, with a closed pool system and modern computer management.
Litija is a town by the Sava River, a river that repeatedly floods or otherwise endangers its inhabitants. Firefighters presented an amphibious vehicle, which is a motor vehicle intended for moving on water and on land.
The partner from Litija also presented the participants with some local attractions, from the Sitarjevec mine, the collection of pebbles from the Sava River on Breg pri Litija, to the Bogenšperk Castle and the Litija City Museum, which testifies to life in the city by the river in the past.
After more than a year of implementation of the project, the participants at the meetings have already strengthened their partnership and developed their friendship. As in all meetings so far, the Slovenians also tried to make the three-day meeting pleasant and interesting.
The project will close the last event, which will take place in September in Ruma, Serbia.