The sewer and wastewater management system in municipalities is, despite highly dispersed settlement structure and large number of small municipalities, on a relatively good level. Municipalities work hard on fulfillment of the EU requirements, according to which all municipalities with more than 2,000 equivalent inhabitants must be connected to waste water purification plants (ČOVs). Not all ČOVs have the technical parameters necessary for wastewater sanitation at a level that meets current legislative requirements. The condition of older sewer networks in small settlements, especially those from the 1950’s –1970’s, lack certain elements to be functioning as full-cycle sewer systems.
Table – Share of population supplied with water from the public water system
Table – Population connected to a public sewer system
Since 2004, the Vysočina Region provides subsidies for construction and reconstruction of waster purification plants (ČOVs) and sewer systems. Thanks to this support, dozens ČOVs and kilometers of public sewer systems have been built or reconstructed.
Table – Subsidies to construction and reconstruction of ČOVs and public sewer systems
Graph – Vysočina‘s population supplied with water from public water system and connected to public sewer system from 2002 to 2005