Bulgaria, 2023: There has been no running water in the Karnobat village of San Stefano for decades ᐉ News from Fakti.bg – Bulgaria
The inhabitants of the Carnobat village of San Stefano have been living without running water for decades. Locals say that there was never a water supply system in the village, and no water supply projects were made. To get water for washing and bathing, its 48 permanent residents rely on old wells and boreholes. Todor Kolev, a resident of the village, told BTA about a problem in San Stefano.
“Young people cannot stay here, there is no way to increase the population, because running water is still a mirage. in which the electricity goes out, they are still left without water. We are addicted. It happened on the evening of December 29 that the electricity stopped and was restored the next day in the afternoon. Imagine being here at that time – without electricity and water and being with a small child,” said Kolev. He said that the elders said that at one time an attempt was made to supply the village with water, but to no avail.
“Concrete reservoirs were poured, but the moment they reached into the water for samples and analysis, it turned out to be unfit, with bad indicators, and everything was stopped,” Kolev pointed out. He explains that the responsible communications are aware of the problem in San Stefano. Signals, letters, signatures, petitions were sent to them that people are suffering, but there was no solution to the problem.
“We turned to the Commission for Protection against Discrimination after learning about a similar case in a village in the Haskovo region, and the commission was able to help,” said Kolev.
Now the residents of the village are suing the Municipality of Karnobat for discrimination.
“Our goal is not to judge the mayor, but we want to show that we are awake people and insist that the problem be solved. The basic right of access to water for drinking and domestic needs is not limited,” Kolev said. According to him, the municipality has already been convicted in the first instance for discrimination. He is now appealing the decision to the Administrative Court in Sofia.
The Municipality of Karnobat explained that a lot of money is needed for the construction of a water pipe to the village, and it has no way of providing it.
“Somewhere around twenty – twenty-two million BGN are needed for the construction of a water supply system in San Stefano. in order to make the treatment plant in Yasna Polyana a major emergency and to ensure normal water supply to five municipalities in Burgas. You know the truth about Omurtag – there you also suffer twenty million BGN”, said the mayor of Karnobat Municipality, Georgi Dimitrov. He says that drilling was done in the village of San Stefano, but water with nitrates and nitrites twenty times higher than the norm came out.
“This village has existed for 300 years and has never had running water. The situation is not pleasant. There is a village fountain in the village, but the water is only for pouring, not for drinking. That I or the municipality of Karnobat have been condemned – there is no such thing There is a decision of the Commission for Protection against Discrimination and it is absurd, which does not require us to bring water to the village within a month. There is nowhere to provide this money. The budget of the Municipality of Karnobat is BGN 3-4 million, from which we have to provide funding for social activities, hospitals, maintenance of kindergartens, etc. This means that for seven years we do not have to do anything in this municipality to provide running water to about 50 people in San Stefano, commented Georgi Dimitrov. .
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