Lecturers at the seminar “Snow cover – a hidden source of drinking water” were Melita Lelić et al. Jasmin Durmišević from INZ and the guest lecturer Clubatologist and meteorologist Željko Majstorović.
– The UN topic this year is “preserving the glacier as a source of drinking water in the world.” We don’t have glaciers, but we have a snow cover, which is also on the highest bh. the tops of year to year less than. They are essential as drinking water supplies and as tanks for annual drinking water renewal. The most important responsible management and preservation of water resources – he pointed out dr. Durmišević.
The seminar and round table were intended for health professionals in the field of public health, sanitary, veterinary and market inspectors, representatives of government institutions, non-governmental organizations, communal and water management companies and citizens’ associations.
It was pointed out that the water is necessary and very important for all aspects of human life, health, food production and that without quality and healthy water there is no life on the earth for man.
– The connection and importance of snow with the current situation with water shows. These climate change made a lot. Snow is less and less, and thus water that fills the sources at the foot of those mountains. Examples work, the Hot River Bosna is for the first time since the records of the place dried up a few days late last summer – Majstorović pointed out.
He emphasized that society must invest more effort in better water supply, forest protection from all more common fires, erosion and soil degradation.
– We need to find ways to adapt to the new extreme situation – drought – flood – drought – Night – low temperatures – Majstorović pointed out.
World Water Day, which established the United Nations General Assembly in 1993. year, every year adopts a special topic with the aim of raising global awareness on water related issues. During the round table, participants had the opportunity to hear the latest analyzes and proposals for the improvement of water supply systems and protection systems.
During the set in Zenica, a perennial analysis of microbiological and chemical waters of water in water objects of the Zenica-Doboj Canton was presented.
While the city’s waters managed by public enterprises and institutions have almost 100-percentage correctness, the state of local sources (publicants, rivers, wells, rural water products) is worse from year. Thus, 676 samples are as many as 539 (79.73 percent) either microbiologically defective, while slightly more than two percent of these samples were both chemically incorrect.
It was highlighted that the most common causes of water malfunction – infrastructure, sanitary and environmental factors, but also reducing precipitation, pollution and seasonal oscillations. The gathered experts point out that without a comprehensive action and engagement from year to year, we will have less and less clean drinking water, but also technical waters for other needs, inz.
(Vijesti.ba / Fena)
