Tag: river

The destruction of water resources in order to build micro hydro power plants must stop, appeals the Civil society organization "Eko svest" (Eco Consciousness). They are reacting to the last case of destruction of Markova Reka (Marko's River) upper stream, so that a micro hydropower plant can be built. There was also a reaction on social media against it...

The environmental organizations alarm that the planning and the building of micro hydro power plants on the Shar Mountain and the issuing of concessions for them should stop. These energy facilities provide minimal contributions to the country's total energy balance, but are causing enormous damage to the rivers' potentials, which due to the climate changes are providing less and...

It is in the fourth category of bacteriological pollution, while in terms of chemical pollution it might easily stand between the fourth and fifth category. These are the sad results of the examinations of the quality of the water in Vardar River in the Skopje region in North Macedonia, that were conducted by Dr. Ljupco Kostadinovski, a specialist in...

The Government annulled the concession procedure for the hydro power plant (HPP) Zhirovnica 3 at the Mavrovo National Park. It was one of three concessions that were withdrawn at yesterday's session, when the Government also granted 18 concessions for the construction of other small hydroelectric plants in the country. This decision of the Government comes after the Ministry of Environment...

Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski visited the villages Tearce and Poroj, which were flooded during the severe storm that caught the region. He was accompanied by the Minister of Transport Vlado Misajlovski. They checked the progress on the river bed which had to be repaired and broadened. Gruevski and Misajlovski visited flooded homes in the village Dobroshte, where they promised...

Livestock was saved the goods, furniture was collected. This is how villagers of Vasharejca in Pelagonija Municipality of Mogila spent the night, after Crna Reka again overflowed in the yards of several villages. Spase Bozhinovski, farmer of Vasharejca, says that, the whole night, pumped water from yards and dug canals to direct water towards drains just to prevent it entering...

Dam Kalimanci began to overflow and after uncontrolled leakage of water, settlements along the river Bregalnica are in danger. There is a water flow of about 280 cubic meters per second from the dam, and according to the Minister of Transport and Communications Mile Janakieski, all that water go into river Bregalnica. Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and Minister of Interior...

Fruitful Pelagonija field is under water, river Crna has reached the level of 4.70 meters. At the places where the bed of the river has not been cleaned for decades, it is overflowing and causing great damage. After the heavy rainfall in Bitola part of Pelagonija, where up to 50 liters per m2 fell, over 3,000 hectares of fruitful land...

A major flood of the river Bregalnica is expected in Shtip and that three settlements – 8 Noemvri, Chardaklija and Novo Selo – would be flooded. Worrying is the situation with the dam Kalimanci where 50 cubic meters of water per second are currently poured out. The national crisis headquarters is currently in session in Shtip. Minister of Transport and Communications...