Groundwater Quality Degradation in Obrenovac Municipality, Serbia

Land Use Changes and Environmental Problems Caused by Bank Erosion: A Case Study of the Kolubara River Basin in Serbia

“…Numerous calls for helping endangered people and goods were sent to the different addresses, but no one tried to help. Apparently, the problem goes beyond the "values" of a few villages and the state interest (lignite exploitation) has absolute priority, like in the case of neighboring Dubrava and unique sources of Obrenovac Municipality [34]. This situation lasted till the catastrophic floods in June 2010, when the shocking images of flood damage terrified the publicity, and problem could not be ignored anymore.…”

“…Some European countries have such laws [34], but the differences between countries are significant. In most of the cases the critical values are obtained using the equilibrium method and maximum acceptable concentration (MAC) for the surface waters with regard to direct and indirect effects on living organisms in the water-sediments systems.…”

“…The accumulated sediments can contain considerable concentrations of heavy metals and that is threat for the aquatic habitats and for the people [8,[32][33][34].…”