Tag: lake
Macedonia 08.02.22 | 13:12

Some improvement in lake Ohrid water levels, lake Prespa remains critical

Water levels in lake Ohrid are up by two centimeters from yesterday. The level is still 14 centimeters below the February average, while lake Prespa is whole 1.63 metes below the average. Prespa is just three centimeters above the absolute minimum. Relatively warm weather is already melting the snow...
Macedonia 26.12.21 | 10:41

Divers decorate a Christmas tree at the bottom of lake Ohrid

Divers from the Amphora club in Ohrid decorated a Christmas tree at the bottom of the lake to welcome in the New Year. The traditional event takes place near the Bay of Bones and this year is the 19th time the club is performing this stunt.
Macedonia 22.11.21 | 21:51

Energy crisis: Lake Matka is drying out

Lake Matka, an artificial accumulation on Treska river next to Skopje, is the latest to fall victim to the overuse of water resources. Photographs from the lake show it dried out in places. Authorities were freely using the accumulated waters in the artificial lakes during the summer, and exporting surplus...
Macedonia 18.11.21 | 12:58

Lake Prespa water levels are 1.62 meters below the November average

Lake Prespa is 1.62 meters below its November average and 12 centimeteres below the level considered the absolute minimum for the lake, said the UHMR hydro-meterological institute. Macedonia’s second largest lake now measures just 842.25 meter. Lake Ohrid, which is linked to Prespa, is also two...
Macedonia 14.11.21 | 13:27

Energy crisis: Lake Tikves is almost drained

Lake Tikves, one of the artificial lakes built on Crna river that provide hydro energy, is almost empty. VMRO-DPMNE official Cvetan Tripunovski held a press conference on the shore of the lake today, to raise alarm about the poor state it and other such artificial lakes are in. Water levels are just...
Macedonia 30.01.21 | 11:28

Leak shows major development being planned at the site of lake Treska

The development plan for lake Treska, prepared by the Saraj municipality, was leaked in the public and it shows hotels and shopping malls penned worth a total fo 200 million EUR in what was once a popular recreational area just west of Skopje. Mayor Blerim Bexheti spent days denying that he plans to...
Macedonia 07.11.20 | 13:41

Dramatic images from the semi-dried out Mavrovo lake

The shocking images from lake Mavrovo, which is rapidly drying out, have prompted local citizens and tourists to blame the ELEM energy company, which manages the Mavrovo dam. The artificial lake is a major draw for tourists in the Bistra mountain in western Macedonia. Its creation flooded a small valley,...
Macedonia 25.09.20 | 15:11

Environmentalists raise alarm as lake Prespa continues to dry out

Environmentalist group Ohrid SOS warns that the level of lake Prespa has dropped to its lowest in the past century. The lake, which was used as a backdrop for the imposed name change treaty with Greece in 2018, has been withdrawing for years now, likely as the result of water outflows from lake Ohrid...
Macedonia 04.09.20 | 13:16

Lake Prespa water levels continue their dramatic drop

Water levels are continuing to decline in lake Prespa and Ohrid. The situation is especially dramatic in Prespa, which is 85 centimeters down from the September average. Ohrid is down 5 centimeters. Both lakes, which are connected by passages under the Galicica mountain, receded – Ohrd by two centimeters...
Macedonia 03.08.20 | 22:32

Divers end search for a boy missing in lake Prespa for the day

With night falling, divers called off the search for a 16 year old boy that went missing on lake Prespa. The search will resume tomorrow but odds of finding the boy alive look dim. The boy went missing after falling off from a small pedal boat on Sunday. He was not a good swimmer, and neither were the...
Macedonia 30.06.20 | 12:47

Fishing boat transporting 200 kilograms of marijuana seized on lake Ohrid

Ohrid lake patrols have seized a major shipment of 200 kilograms of marijuana that was being transported on a fishing boat. A single smuggler was operating the boat that was intercepted around midnight, near the Sateska river, east of Struga. The smuggler abandoned the drugs and fled. It is believed...
Macedonia 06.03.20 | 11:02

Tripunovski: Despite critical lake levels, they are still being emptied to produce electricity

We keep pumping water out of our lakes to produce electricity despite the water levels being at their worst in decades, said Interim Deputy Agriculture Minister Cvetan Tripunovski. A number of lakes, including Prespa and Mavrovo, are at critically low levels, after the exceptionally dry Autumn. This...
Macedonia 03.03.20 | 20:51

Water levels in lakes across Macedonia are approaching the bare minimum

Infomax journalist Aleksandar Mitovski who blew the whistle on the dramatic drop in water levels on lake Prespa, warns that a similar danger is developing on the Kalimanci artificial lake, that is important for watering the rice paddies along Bregalnica river. The water is gone. It’s probably the...

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