We pray for heavy snows that could fill in the rivers, the lakes, and the reservoirs, and also very importantly - to be able to have an abundant ski season.
The water situation here in Bulgaria scares me and when you look at what is happening further up stream at the Danube and its source from the rapidly thawing glaciers that feed it, I do wonder what the future holds. The water table here in Bulgaria as told to me back in 2010 (by an Engineer who drills boreholes) has fallen by a few metres and as he told me back then, nobody knew why. My village has never had mains water and I had the money to sink a 30 metre deep borehole, some others have shallower boreholes, but most rely upon Well water and the two springs at each end of the village. The first spring dried up two summers ago and the second spring this summer as early as mid June. My neighbour with a shallower borehole than mine can run the water for 5-10 minutes and then has to wait for it to replenish again. Numerous other villages are without water completely or on an enforced regime of mains water as determined by the Mayor however, the towns and cities do not suffer shortages, the hotels continue to water their lawns on sprinklers, the car washes work and the swimming pools are full. The biggest consumers, I should guess are the grape and other fruit growers, these are big business and can afford to sink really deep boreholes which must affect the underlying water table. There is no doubt that as modern conveniences come into Bulgarian village life with indoor plumbing, washing machines that we consume far more water that we ever did. The majority of local villagers grow their own produce and obviously require water for it to flourish, but I do not see sprinkler systems or running hosepipes, usually a watering can. People make demonstrations, the blame is placed upon climate change and an archaic delivery system. We don't need downpours, we need Biblical steady rains for 40 days and 40 night type scenarios as heavy downpours just run off and evaporate. I haven't witnessed a real winter here since 2009/10 when the snow was a metre deep at my 220 metres above sea level albeit, a rapid thaw, again causes flooding and run off and evaporation. I don't think that we are being told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about the underground aquifers, but it seems obvious to me that we have to be more conservative with our water usage as people and not simply take it for granted before the reservoirs run completely dry and we are desalinating the sea and being charged petrol prices per litre. How uplifting was that - sorry. No worries, some expert will put me and the world to rights. 😉
Please don't apologise ! Fascinating information and we suspect that you are absolutely right ! Our village relies on spring water and has recently been dry, although it has started again now.
I was over a few days ago looking at houses, so about 400m away there is a big lake filled with water. I forgot to check the other above the village. But the well was dry and it was a long way down, the springs were also dry all over the village, there were a few water butts dotted around. I think for some the pipes are broken and have been leaking off water. The warm winter, both have caused the issues. Nowi have to debate if I do what Spain does and have a lorry delivery of water and build a reservoir on the property itself, or a big holding tank.
Sounds like you have a decision to make. Luckily here we had about 5 hours rain the other day, which whilst it hasn't made any difference to the reservoir does mean that the spring is running again !
Interesting video Ant and Dick, thanks for sharing. Still don't understand why we're having so many issues with our Akaso sound and yours sounds great lol.
Thank you. I did email you via your facebook page the other day wondering if you had "wind noise reduction" turned off as all the research I did before buying said not to use it and we never have ! Hope this may help.
To be honust i loved bulgaris and planned to retire out there but that was one thing that put me off the water supply and electric power cuts in the villages we stayed out there for a week in a lovely bed a breakfast but had no water for two days out of that week and can imagine in the extreme heat it wont be comfortable xx
Hi, we didn't have any problem with water last summer when we were here. Where we are is very unusual as we rely totally on water coming off the mountain, that is our only supply. As for power cuts, yes they do happen but are normally fixed fairly quickly. Please don't be put off it's a beautiful country !
So do the owners of the reservoir need to dig it out to expand the capacity of storage so when through the winter months it can acheive a bigger store for the summer? Answers on a post card..lol
All water resources here are government owned and/or controlled. As I recall in the UK, if you're on your own land, off grid and have a borehole, the water company will still say that the water is theirs, control the quality and probably charge you for it.
I love the translation game. Firstly, the Museum is undergoing roof repairs that should be finished in October, but as usual here, it doesn't state which year. 🤦😉 Google translate is limited and sometimes should be taken with a pinch of salt, but never relied upon for important translations where Bulgarian is concerned. The sign, Българино, знай своя род и език is NOT know your gender and your language. It comes from old Slavonic Patriarchal writing in a book of 1762 by Saint Paisius of Hilendar. (you can google him). He was basically saying to Bulgarians 'Know your RACE (heritage, genes, fatherland etc.) and your language. In modern terms, I'd guess he meant, be proud to be a Bulgarian and show it - perhaps as I'm neither a historian or a translator. I'll comment on the water as I view more of the video.
Great to hear from you Robert, hope you are well. Ah, yes Google translate, definitely to be taken with a pinch of salt ! Thanks for the true translation and the history, very interesting.
@@AandDexcellentadventure A Bulgarian friend replied to me last evening with, 'Род in that case has a meaning of ancestry, descent or origin', so I wasn't that far off.
We pray for heavy snows that could fill in the rivers, the lakes, and the reservoirs, and also very importantly - to be able to have an abundant ski season.
We could certainly do with some snow this winter, otherwise next summer will be worse.
Yes, it is desperately needed.
"...the deceased Pena,Tsona and Dena" 1818. That was on one of the stones. So, three women lay there.
Thanks very much, fascinating !
The water situation here in Bulgaria scares me and when you look at what is happening further up stream at the Danube and its source from the rapidly thawing glaciers that feed it, I do wonder what the future holds.
The water table here in Bulgaria as told to me back in 2010 (by an Engineer who drills boreholes) has fallen by a few metres and as he told me back then, nobody knew why. My village has never had mains water and I had the money to sink a 30 metre deep borehole, some others have shallower boreholes, but most rely upon Well water and the two springs at each end of the village. The first spring dried up two summers ago and the second spring this summer as early as mid June. My neighbour with a shallower borehole than mine can run the water for 5-10 minutes and then has to wait for it to replenish again.
Numerous other villages are without water completely or on an enforced regime of mains water as determined by the Mayor however, the towns and cities do not suffer shortages, the hotels continue to water their lawns on sprinklers, the car washes work and the swimming pools are full. The biggest consumers, I should guess are the grape and other fruit growers, these are big business and can afford to sink really deep boreholes which must affect the underlying water table.
There is no doubt that as modern conveniences come into Bulgarian village life with indoor plumbing, washing machines that we consume far more water that we ever did. The majority of local villagers grow their own produce and obviously require water for it to flourish, but I do not see sprinkler systems or running hosepipes, usually a watering can.
People make demonstrations, the blame is placed upon climate change and an archaic delivery system. We don't need downpours, we need Biblical steady rains for 40 days and 40 night type scenarios as heavy downpours just run off and evaporate. I haven't witnessed a real winter here since 2009/10 when the snow was a metre deep at my 220 metres above sea level albeit, a rapid thaw, again causes flooding and run off and evaporation.
I don't think that we are being told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about the underground aquifers, but it seems obvious to me that we have to be more conservative with our water usage as people and not simply take it for granted before the reservoirs run completely dry and we are desalinating the sea and being charged petrol prices per litre.
How uplifting was that - sorry. No worries, some expert will put me and the world to rights. 😉
Please don't apologise !
Fascinating information and we suspect that you are absolutely right !
Our village relies on spring water and has recently been dry, although it has started again now.
I was over a few days ago looking at houses, so about 400m away there is a big lake filled with water. I forgot to check the other above the village.
But the well was dry and it was a long way down, the springs were also dry all over the village, there were a few water butts dotted around.
I think for some the pipes are broken and have been leaking off water. The warm winter, both have caused the issues.
Nowi have to debate if I do what Spain does and have a lorry delivery of water and build a reservoir on the property itself, or a big holding tank.
Sounds like you have a decision to make.
Luckily here we had about 5 hours rain the other day, which whilst it hasn't made any difference to the reservoir does mean that the spring is running again !
Interesting video Ant and Dick, thanks for sharing.
Still don't understand why we're having so many issues with our Akaso sound and yours sounds great lol.
Thank you. I did email you via your facebook page the other day wondering if you had "wind noise reduction" turned off as all the research I did before buying said not to use it and we never have ! Hope this may help.
@@AandDexcellentadventure Oh, I haven't seen that comment, but thank you very much for the advice, I will check this. 🙂
To be honust i loved bulgaris and planned to retire out there but that was one thing that put me off the water supply and electric power cuts in the villages we stayed out there for a week in a lovely bed a breakfast but had no water for two days out of that week and can imagine in the extreme heat it wont be comfortable xx
Hi, we didn't have any problem with water last summer when we were here. Where we are is very unusual as we rely totally on water coming off the mountain, that is our only supply.
As for power cuts, yes they do happen but are normally fixed fairly quickly.
Please don't be put off it's a beautiful country !
So do the owners of the reservoir need to dig it out to expand the capacity of storage so when through the winter months it can acheive a bigger store for the summer? Answers on a post card..lol
Maybe they do, sounds like a plan ! In the meantime lots of rain and snow would help !
All water resources here are government owned and/or controlled. As I recall in the UK, if you're on your own land, off grid and have a borehole, the water company will still say that the water is theirs, control the quality and probably charge you for it.
Ah, yes the good old UK ! :(
I love the translation game. Firstly, the Museum is undergoing roof repairs that should be finished in October, but as usual here, it doesn't state which year. 🤦😉
Google translate is limited and sometimes should be taken with a pinch of salt, but never relied upon for important translations where Bulgarian is concerned. The sign, Българино, знай своя род и език is NOT know your gender and your language. It comes from old Slavonic Patriarchal writing in a book of 1762 by Saint Paisius of Hilendar. (you can google him). He was basically saying to Bulgarians 'Know your RACE (heritage, genes, fatherland etc.) and your language. In modern terms, I'd guess he meant, be proud to be a Bulgarian and show it - perhaps as I'm neither a historian or a translator. I'll comment on the water as I view more of the video.
Great to hear from you Robert, hope you are well.
Ah, yes Google translate, definitely to be taken with a pinch of salt !
Thanks for the true translation and the history, very interesting.
@@AandDexcellentadventure A Bulgarian friend replied to me last evening with, 'Род in that case has a meaning of ancestry, descent or origin', so I wasn't that far off.
@@RobertsBulgaria I was going to comment on that too. Род in that sentence translates as ancestry.