The WATERVILL project has completed its State of the Art assessment, providing a baseline of the current condition of drinking water supply systems in the four pilot municipalities: Žabljak in Montenegro, Bitola in North Macedonia, Ilirska Bistrica in Slovenia and Teslić in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The assessment was carried out as part of Work Package 1 – Water System Solutions Study, and builds on information collected through municipal questionnaires, available technical and financial data, existing documentation and knowledge from project partners.
It looks at a range of aspects, including water resources, infrastructure, service provision, water losses, financial sustainability, climate resilience, digitalisation and local governance.
The findings show that, while the four pilot municipalities have different local conditions and starting points, they also face a number of shared challenges. High water losses, ageing infrastructure, limited monitoring and some specific vulnerabilities of small and rural water supply systems emerge as important issues across the pilot areas. At the same time, the assessment highlights significant differences in digital readiness, governance models and data availability between municipalities.
The assessment also includes a national-level approach, examining the institutional, legal, financial and regulatory frameworks shaping rural and mountainous water supply systems across the relevant economies.
Explore the key findings from the report below to better understand what the data tells about rural water supply across the four WATERVILL pilot municipalities.
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