From 20 to 23 July, WATERVILL partners carried out the project’s first field visits to gain a better understanding of drinking water supply systems in rural and mountainous areas, and the challenges faced by pilot municipalities.
The visits were organised as part of project work package 1 – Water System Solutions Study, and more specifically the ongoing State of the Art analysis of the current condition of water supply systems, led by project partner University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture (UNIZAG FSB), in close collaboration with all project partners.
Building on the analysis already carried out by the partnership through questionnaires and available data, the field visits brought together several project partners with technical expertise, in Zagreb, Croatia, before continuing to two of WATERVILL’s four pilot municipalities: Ilirska Bistrica in Slovenia, and Teslić in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republika Srpska. You can find more information about the visits in this article.
Discover more about the itinerary and the visits in the video below. More importantly, you can hear representatives of the public water utility companies in Ilirska Bistrica and Teslić talking about the main challenges they face locally, as well as those they have recently faced, and project representatives from the City of Teslić and the Municipality of Ilirska Bistrica sharing their expectations for WATERVILL’s outcomes:
