{"id":199409,"date":"2026-01-27T14:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T12:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=199409"},"modified":"2026-01-27T14:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T12:11:15","slug":"how-much-does-water-supply-reconstruction-in-serbia-really-cost-vucic-claims-5-billion-a-state-commission-report-says-800-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/how-much-does-water-supply-reconstruction-in-serbia-really-cost-vucic-claims-5-billion-a-state-commission-report-says-800-million\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW MUCH DOES WATER SUPPLY RECONSTRUCTION IN SERBIA REALLY COST? Vu\u010di\u0107 claims \u20ac5 billion, a state commission report says \u2013 \u20ac800 million!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Serbian President Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107 stated on Blic TV that \u20ac5 billion is needed for the reconstruction of the water supply network in Serbia, emphasizing that this amount does not refer to U\u017eice, but to the entire country. The same estimate had previously been presented at a Government session by the Minister of Public Investments, Darko Gli\u0161i\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, as investigated by Serbian Times, official documents from state institutions indicate a significantly lower cost for these works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By analyzing available documentation, the Serbian Times portal found a 2019 report by the State Audit Institution (DRI) titled \u201cEfficiency of Water Supply Infrastructure Management,\u201d which states that water losses in the network can be reduced through investments in the revitalization and construction of the water supply network, for which, according to state estimates, investments of over \u20ac800 million are required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means that the estimate currently presented by Vu\u010di\u0107 and Gli\u0161i\u0107 differs from the DRI estimate by as much as \u20ac4.2 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#d21414\" class=\"has-inline-color\">READ MORE:<\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-serbiantimes-info wp-block-embed-serbiantimes-info\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"NN4nFEPwFK\"><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/u-opasnosti-zdravlje-250-000-ljudi-hoce-li-republika-srpska-pristati-da-zajedno-sa-bih-postane-kolonija-za-nuklearni-otpad-hrvatske-foto\/\">U OPASNOSTI ZDRAVLJE 250.000 LJUDI: Ho\u0107e li Republika Srpska pristati da zajedno sa BIH postane kolonija za nuklearni otpad Hrvatske? 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On average, public water utilities in Serbia lose more than one third of water annually, while in as many as 20% of water supply systems, losses exceed 50% of the total produced quantity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Auditors estimate that on this basis, more than 10 billion dinars in revenue of public water utility companies is lost every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if inflation from 2019 to today were taken into account, it cannot explain the jump in the estimate from \u20ac800 million to \u20ac5 billion, as that would imply a cost increase of over 500%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, the question remains open as to which new analyses, studies, or projects the President of Serbia and the competent ministers are now relying on when citing the figure of \u20ac5 billion, given that the latest available report of the State Audit Institution speaks of a multiple times smaller amount of required investments. 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The same estimate had previously been presented at a Government session by the Minister of Public Investments, Darko [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":199410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[856,3615,10944,1525,876,113,4596,10945],"class_list":["post-199409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-serbia","tag-aleksandar-vucic","tag-budzet-2","tag-drzavna-komisija","tag-novac","tag-politika","tag-srbija","tag-uzice","tag-vodovod","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199409"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199449,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199409\/revisions\/199449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}