Where to Find Water Tankers in Belgrade: 10 Locations
The City of Belgrade published the list of spots where drinking water tankers stand during the hottest part of the day. Public fountains keep running, and water quality is checked.
Where can you fill up on water in Belgrade when the thermometer hits 39 degrees? At ten points around the city, wherever drinking water tankers are set up during the hottest part of the day. The City of Belgrade and the City Emergency Situations Staff have released the list, and it is exactly the kind of practical information you need before heading out to work or catching public transport.
The measure started on July 27, when an orange weather alert was in effect, and has been extended through the entire stretch of extreme heat. The Republic Hydrometeorological Institute (RHMZ) is forecasting daytime temperatures of 36 to 39 degrees for Belgrade through the first ten days of August, with tropical nights where the mercury does not drop below 22 to 24 degrees.
Ten locations with water tankers
The tankers are placed at the busiest spots in the city, where people wait for transport or transfer between lines:
- the “Belgrade Fair” stop, heading toward the outskirts
- the Zeleni Venac turnaround
- the roundabout near the New Belgrade municipal building
- the Cara Dusana turnaround in Zemun
- Slavija Square
- Nikola Pasic Square
- Republic Square
- Aviators’ Square
- Ada Ciganlija, the transfer stop heading toward the outskirts
- the “Sest Kaplara” stop on Mihajlo Pupin Boulevard
The layout is not random. Seven of the ten points are stops, turnarounds or transfer spots, meaning places where people stand outside without shade, often for twenty minutes at a time.
When are the tankers set up?
Only during the hottest part of the day, and only on days when extreme temperatures are forecast. They are not there around the clock, so do not count on finding them in the morning or evening. If you need water at another time of day, the public fountains run without interruption.
Is the water from public fountains safe?
Yes, and it is actually measured. The city says two bodies run the same check in parallel, so one result serves as a control on the other.
The quality of water from public fountains supplied by the city waterworks is checked in parallel by JKP Beogradski Vodovod i Kanalizacija and the City Institute of Public Health
All public fountains and drinking fountains in the city run without interruption, and the areas around them are maintained daily. A practical tip: if you are carrying a two liter bottle, the fountain on Republic Square or at Slavija draws from the same source as the tankers, just without the line.
What last night looked like
Belgrade’s Emergency Medical Service logged 101 calls overnight into August 3, 17 of them in public places. Two minor traffic accidents were also recorded, with no serious injuries. The number of calls in public places is the figure worth watching in days like these, since it shows how many people are collapsing on the street rather than at home.
We have already reported on the red weather alert and the warning that the worst of the heat wave is still ahead, between August 5 and 8. The tankers, in other words, were set up before the peak, not after it.
One request from the announcement
Along with the list of locations came an appeal that repeats every summer, though this year it carries extra weight given how long the heat wave has lasted.
Citizens are once again urged to use drinking water rationally in order to preserve the city’s water supply system
In plain terms: watering lawns and washing cars at midday are the first things that put pressure on the network. Our advice is to use tanker water for drinking, not for filling up containers, since the line stays short only as long as everyone follows that rule.
