Water management

The National Assembly will have a new and more modern website. The public contract for its construction has already been announced. Parliament has budgeted over BGN 100,000 in the summer months, bTV reported.

During a scandal involving leaked personal data from the NRA, prosecutors announced that parliament was also targeted by hackers. Or rather, its sprinklers.

The reason - problems with cleaning the affected facilities, reported NOVA TV. 

The declared state of emergency in Strelcha has been extended by seven days and will continue until June 24, according to BGNES.

The Mayor of Strelcha declared a state of emergency on the territory of the municipality, reported BTA. 

The reason is the complicated meteorological situation, which had led to serious issues with the Strelcha water catchment area and necessity to take urgent measures to deal with the consequences. 

Greece is taking a lead in developing a circular economy through the European Union-funded Hydrousa project, a scientific program aimed at the extraction of water from unconventional sources to be used for irrigation and even for human consumption on the country's islands. It is now moving on from the designing stage to licensing.

A project to modernize irrigation in Turkey will be implemented with $254 million in financing from the World Bank.

Temporary the water supply in some parts of Sofia will be suspended  due to the construction of sewerage and the replacement of street water supply.

 On 19 December 2018, in connection with the construction of sewerage and the replacement of street water supply on Balaton Street, in Lyulin district, the water supply  will be suspended from 09.00 to 21.00.

Several areas in Iraklio on the island of Crete suffered from temporary water cuts on Monday due to damage to a major water supply pipe, according to a statement by the municipal water and sewage authority.

The areas affected were Katsambas, Karteros and Prassa in Kallithea.

Local reports said the damage to the pipe was caused by nearby private construction work.

The population served by the public water supply system represented 67.5pct of Romania's resident population in 2017, in the urban area 96.9pct of the population being connected to the public system, and in the rural area - 33.5pct, according to data released by the National Statistics Institute for AGERPRES on Friday.

Water supply problems persisted in Thessaloniki on Saturday despite progress by technicians of the Thessaloniki Water Supply and Sewage Company (EYATH) in mending a rupture to a central water main serving the northern port city.

The National Statistical Institute presents to the users results from annual surveys in the domain of environmental statistics for 2016.