Bulgaria has seen a noticeable decrease in fresh water supplied by natural hydrological cycles.
For the period 1985 - 1995, run-off decreased by 40 %. This trend towards drought due to climate change, in combination with a lack of major reservoirs, the worn-out state of general water supply infrastructure and bad management have forced the government to formulate a programme for improving troubled drinking, domestic and irrigation water supplies.

 

Funding:
Canton of Geneva - Switzerland

Local partner organisation:
Institue for Ecological Modernisation (IEM) 
Bulgarie

International partner:
International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance (IRHA )
Geneva - Switzerland 

The inauguration of the new RWH installation
was held on 17 th of September 2004.
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Rainwater Harvesting in the Stara Zagora region Bulgaria
At the beginning of 2003 IRHA and its Bulgarian partner, Earth Forever, formulated three projects for Bulgaria:

• RWH in Bilingual High School “Romain Rolland” in Stara Zagora
• RWH in Sulitsa, Stara Zagora District and a Workshop in Sofia
• Eco-sanitation - Dry Toilets in Sulitsa, Stara Zagora District, Bulgaria and a 5 day Training Course

IRHA thus planned to promote rainwater management for rural and urban areas and ecological sanitation for rural areas in Bulgaria. It included direct project implementation as well as awareness raising (the conference in Sofia) and training of users and local policy makers (training courses in Stara Zagora). The introduction of these two components of the policy of Integrated Water Resource Management in Bulgaria was to have a total cost less than € 110,000.

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