The MoES does not have a single dam, but controls the water in 52 dams. These are the largest dams, there is 85% of the country's water resources. The other 6,500 dams have some insignificant amounts. These 52 dams are of national importance. When you go to give water from them, you should also think about next year. The dams are owned by several departments. Three years ago, we left all the dams full, not to produce electricity and give it to private hydropower plants, but to have them as a national resource. This was stated by the former Minister of the Environment and Water, Emil Dimitrov - Revizoro in "Day ON AIR".
In his words
The hydropower plants are owned by the oligarchs.
"It should be known that the dams do not exist for the hydropower plants to work, but for irrigation agriculture, for domestic purposes and they are a priority.
It is important that the dams are full because the surface water sources dry up, the levels fall down. Sooner or later, we will start taking water from the dams and they must be full, and you should not look after your private interest and give it to hydropower plants", Dimitrov added to Bulgaria ON AIR.
The situation with some dams will worsen
According to him, there will be big problems with both the Koprinka and Zhrebchevo dams.
"Those who now claim that the climate is to blame for everything will forget what they said in just a year. Now if there's a fire somewhere, you're going to get the police, the military, and the volunteers. They cannot fill the buckets here, because there is nowhere to go. One of the political forces, the largest, said that this was their number one priority, and this should have been the priority of the cabinet as well," commented the guest.
We should not touch the underground water so that it remains for the next generations,
Dimitrov is categorical.
"Irrigation systems - a sore subject from ministers who do not understand and who, in order to please their branches, promise water, but do not give money to repair the systems and the easiest - "let's not give money, no can we allow wells to be dug". The surface water is the one that we have polluted and that we have, the underground water is the water of our children, of our future, we can't waste it like that," he explained.