Budapest sends water treatment plant for flood-hit areas

BELGRADE - The city of Belgrade has thanked Budapest Waterworks for providing a mini water treatment plant, which will be set up in the village of Skela, Belgrade's municipality of Obrenovac, and use water from the Sava River.

Budapest Waterworks put on disposal to the Belgrade Waterworks and Sewerage a mini water treatment plant, which will immediately be forwarded to the flood-hit areas, the statement reads.

Svetozar Veselinovic, director of the Belgrade Waterworks and Sewerage, said that the capacity of the plant is five cubic meters of water per hour, and being envisaged to work 12 hours a day, it can produce 60,000 liters of drinking water.

“I would like to express our warmest thanks to the colleagues at Budapest Waterworks, who have sent, aside from the water treatment plant, a mobile team that will be available to the people in the affected areas near Belgrade in the next 10 days,” Veselinovic said.

“In case of need, they are willing to extend their stay for another 10 days, when a new group of experts would be sent along with chemicals needed for water treatment,” he said.

Veselinovic said that the Hungarian colleagues are well trained for this type of situations as they had similar experiences with floods a few years ago.

Photo Tanjug, R. Prelic (illustration)