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POLJO PENSIONER "ADVICE FOR SURVIVAL" To fetch the water, you would go to brewery, at night to avoid the shells. It was impossible to go during the day or in the early morning. It was freezing, and your hands would go numb. When you came home, you could not dry yourself. If someone carried four 5-litre canisters attached to his back with a belt, he would come home with his back wet. I made an iron rod and carried two canisters on each rod, which means that I carried twenty litters of water. ANTUN LEKO CITIZEN FROM DOBRINJA "FINDING WATER WITH A PLUMB AND A TWIG" There was no water; there was nothing to drink. We were catching rainwater. And since I had looked for water before I decided to start with a divining rod. I had a hard time finding the necessary forked branch of a tree. And I started to look for water right under the house. A lot of people didn't think I would find it. They made fun of me. However, I found water nearby, some 12 yards away from the building. And I started to dig on my own. A neighbor came over, Enver Salkic, and one or two more who believed in me, who had known be from way back. And we dug a well. I found water some three yards down. That was a great joy. AZEM MEHMEDOVIC CITIZEN "HOW TO BRING A LITER OF WATER" Water was very difficult to carry, especially for me, because it's very difficult for me to go up and down the steps. And during the war it was very risky to let the children to go fetch water, because it was known that they shot at exactly those places where people gathered. And then we got the idea to make, apart from the fact that I climb steps with great difficulty, now we would have to go up the steps with four canisters, for example, which is even harder, so we invented a pulley. It was in fact a sort of drum, that stood on a trestle, there was a handle and there was a cable spooled around it and the cable had a loop, so we let the cable down to the first floor. I live high up on the 11th, and down there you pull the loop through all the canisters and bind them together with a belt and then we slowly pull it up in shifts, my son, then me, then sometimes the neighbors. Mostly we helped each other. But we spent incredible amounts of water, because you use it for all sorts of things, we never even knew that one spends so much water, before we had to carry it. Back to Top |
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