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Ilir Morina, Agim Neziri, Andina Vllahiu, Naser Bajraktari, Valmir Zogaj, Merita Mehmeti

 

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The Impact of the Building Structure, Accumulation and Distributive Infrastructure of the “Ujmani” Reservoir in the Effectiveness of Catchments

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ABSTRACT

The state of Water remains the main subject of this century and undoubtedly of the upcoming centuries. This happens because the world population increases daily, whereas the natural resources diminish (UNIP 2007). Currently, water is facing critical conditions due to the abuse, mismanagement, and the neglect of our society. This paper focuses on water of Kosovo. This, in the future, will be one of the major factors for the economic development of our country. In the average humidity year, in Kosovo, the flowing reaches, approximately, up to 121.2 m3/sec. The distribution of the water resources is uneven and inadequate in comparison to the needs. Moreover, Kosovo has a small number of natural and artificial lakes, thus, maintaining these sources is one of the biggest challenges. This study is based on the “Ujemani” accumulation and its distributive structure, within the competent enterprise, Iber – Lepenc. The “Ujemani” Lake is the largest artificial accumulation in Kosovo. Its area is 11.9 km2, with a depth of 105 meters. Out of this accumulation, more than half of Kosovo is supplied with water, 20000 hectares of farmland are irrigated, and it supplies the main energy and mining industry and produces hydro-energy from 2x17MW/h(kosst2008) . The structure analysis of the “Ujemani” accumulation and its water distributive structure, incurred damages, their reconstruction, amount of water loss due to the damage from the mismanagement and non-maintenance of the infrastructure, international models of water management are the key topic discussion in this study.

KEYWORDS

Ujamnai, accumulation, main canal, irrigation, hydro-system. agriculture, industry

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Cite this paper

Ilir Morina, Agim Neziri, Andina Vllahiu, Naser Bajraktari, Valmir Zogaj, Merita Mehmeti. (2017) The Impact of the Building Structure, Accumulation and Distributive Infrastructure of the “Ujmani” Reservoir in the Effectiveness of Catchments. International Journal of Environmental Science, 2, 54-58

 

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