Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev ordered the Ministry of Environment and Water to take measures to deal with the problem of water scarcity in various regions of the country. He recommended that additional experts and scientific..
The dams in Bulgaria have sufficient free storage space for the incoming water masses and the control volumes set down are being complied with. A Ministry of Agriculture and Food statement reads that all possible action is being taken to prevent..
In the middle of the 20th century, dozens of Bulgarian villages were submerged forever underwater and their inhabitants were forcibly evicted from their land. The communist government started the mass construction of dams, but at the..
There is no danger of any dams overflowing because of the recent heavy rain, the authorities say. After a meeting between Deputy Prime Minister Kornelia Ninova and representatives of the institutions in charge of disaster response it was..
Dams have been repaired at prices five times higher than market ones, Economy Minister Kiril Petkov said after inspecting three reservoirs in the districts of Sliven and Lovech. According to him, the dams were empty after 2. 5 million euros were..
A hearing of Bulgaria’s Minister of Interior Hristo Terziiski, this country’s Minister of Energy Temenuzhka Petkova, Bulgaria’s Minister of Economy Lachezar Borisov and this country’s Minister of Environment and Water Emil Dimitrov on the situation in..
Due to significant rainfall across the country, Economy Minister Lachezar Borisov has ordered the establishment of a crisis headquarters to monitor the condition and levels of the water reservoirs and dams. Together with the responsible state services and..
Speaking about overflowing of several dams in Bulgaria because of heavy rainfalls, the deputy head of the State Agency for Metrological and Technical Surveillance, Kiril Voynov, said that about 1,000 smaller and larger dams in the country need serious..
