'We will die before the Drina is clean': Bosnia villagers hope for a solution to polluted river
20 years since the breakup of Yugoslavia, a failure to establish good waste disposal practices has left Bosnia’s Drina river full of rubbish.
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20 years since the breakup of Yugoslavia, a failure to establish good waste disposal practices has left Bosnia’s Drina river full of rubbish.
Tons of waste dumped in poorly regulated riverside landfills or directly into the waterways that flow across three countries end up accumulating behind a trash barrier in the Drina River in eastern Bosnia during the wet weather of winter and early spring. This week, the barrier once again became the outer edge of a massive…
An iconic European river has filled with plastic bottles, old tyres and fridges after heavy rain.
River fencing installed by a hydroelectric plant has turned the city into an unwilling regional waste site, activists complain.
VISEGRAD, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Tons of waste dumped in poorly regulated riverside landfills or directly into the waterways that flow across three countr