site.btaUPDATED Residents of Pleven Protesting over Water Shortage
Residents of Pleven staged a protest in front of Pleven City Hall on Sunday evening over the ongoing water shortage. The protest was organized on Facebook and lasted for around two hours.
Protesters held posters and left bottles of water in front of City Hall.
Water supply restrictions were introduced in Pleven ten days ago. There is no water supply from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily. Water supply restrictions were in effect last summer as well.
Protester Vesselina Todorova, who lives on the seventh floor of a 15-storey residential building in the Druzhba neighbourhood, said they have water for about an hour in the evening. "How are we doing? I am in the bathroom with the bottles, my husband is in the kitchen, and we fill them with water in the evening. We are in a hurry, and some of our neighbours don't have water even for an hour because they are on the high floors," the woman told BTA.
Borislav Hristov, who is a father of three babies, was among those who came to show their discontent. "The water restrictions have gripped us for several years now. If we don't go out to protest, things won't work out," he believes.
Borislav Tsvetanov, one of the protest's organizers, said people were tired of hearing promises and nothing changing month after month. "We're not getting into politics here, we're talking about a normal life in a city. This is a mockery of us, of our children, of our elderly people, of our whole society," Tsvetanov told BTA.
The protesters called for urgent solutions to the water crisis, and there were calls for roadblocks so that all government officials could address the water shortage in one of the country's regional cities.
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