The Federation of BiH suffers from serious threats to public health and environmental impacts from poorly developed water and wastewater infrastructure. Currently, 60% of the population has access to public water supply and 33% to the public sanitation system and only 2% of the population is connected to wastewater treatment plants.
In the municipality of Jajce, located in the central part of BiH, the springs of water are surface and groundwater from the river basins. The springs are melted during the summer, and the water quality is questionable. The existing water supply system serves approximately 10,000 residents in the city. The other settlements and villages depend on their own water supply systems. Local water supply systems draw water from inadequate water resources, which do not meet drinking water quality standards, especially in the summer.
This investment concerns the construction of the water intake at the Resnik spring, three pumping stations, nine tanks with a total volume of 900 m3, 5.3 km of main pressure pipes, 33 km of main supply lines, 37 km of distribution pipelines to provide water to consumers in the settlements, as well as seven small WWTP on the right bank of Vrbas river.
These developments will improve the living conditions of the population, secure adequate hygienic conditions in the area of water supply and sanitation, and implement environmental protection measures in line with EU directives, in particular with the Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC), Drinking Water Directive (98/83/EC) and Urban Waste Water Directive (91/271/EC).
