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Race for kilowatts empties Bosnian lake

by Rusmir SMAJILHODZIC Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina (AFP)– Bosnia’s fisheries watchdog gazes over an expanse of sand and mud, a space once occupied by a large thriving lake but recently emptied in the race for electricity production. “I have nothing to do here anymore,” said Emir Alebic by the greyish valley that was once the site of the artificially formed, 30-kilometre (18-mile) long Jablanica lake on the Neretva river in southern Bosnia. The water level […]