Water Supply

Water supply of the population suggests provision of high quality water for:

Households,
Industry which demands high quality water or which is incorporated deep into the city area,
Other consumers whose water usage is being notified and charged (commercial activity)
Public needs (institutions, schools, hospitals, organizations, fountains, etc.)

Underground and surface waters are used as springs. Approximately two thirds of the scooped water come from surface and one third from underground waters. The surface waters are used from river flows and accumulations, while the used underground waters mainly come from alluvial waters, waters from primary water complexes, from karsts, from groundwaters within neogene deposits and groundwaters of fissure porosity.
 

The largest part of underground waters is scooped from alluvial areas of river flows, however, a number of springs has to be fostered with water from river flows. River flows used as sources for water supply are being utilized with the purpose of providing the following with water supplies: the city of Belgrade, the municipalities of: Arilje, Pozega, Lucani, Cacak and Gornji Milanovac. There are immense restrictions on the utilization of waters from river flows as drinking water sources due to the quality demands and the required profusion.

The importance of the accumulations is clearly found in their versatile role (the improvement of lesser quantities of water, irrigation, protection against flood waves, water supply of the population and the industry, hydroelectricity, etc.).

Significant utilization of accumulations for the purposes of water supply can be found in the regions of Zlatibor ("Vrutci" and "Zlatibor" accumulations), Sumadija ("Gruza" and "Grosnica" accumulations), as well as "Celije", "Bovan", "Grliste", "Barje" and "Prvonek", all being accumulations whose construction was completed last year.
 

Some multi–purpose accumulations are already in use for water supply, and some accumulation facilities constructed for hydroelectricity purposes have also been supposed to function as sources for the water supply of the population ("Sjenica" and "Kokin Brod" on the river Uvac, "Vlasina" on the river Vlasina and "Zavoj" on the river Visocica).

Currently, some extremely important water supplying systems are being realized in Serbia, these being "Stubo–Rovni" on the river Jablanica and "Selova" near Kursumlija.