In the report of the Fiscal Council on Public Investment Policy in Serbia from June in 2024, it is stated that there will be a shift in the field of sewage construction of infrastructure created at the beginning of the “Clean Serbia” project.

In the area of ​​water protection from pollution, which in Serbia is practically only in its infancy, the main problems remain insufficiently branched sewerage network and few, often outdated waste processing facilities water from households and factories,” the report states, adding that only 67 percent of the population has access to the sewage network (in in CEE countries it is 85 percent).

The report also states that the situation with waste processing is water more dramatic. “Less than 20 percent of the population of Serbia has access to any kind of wastewater treatment, while in CEE countries their share is 86%, and in the EU it is almost 93%” is stated in the report of the Fiscal Council Public Investment Policy in Serbia from June 2024.

The first movement from the “dead center” did not happen until 2021 when the implementation of the first phase of the “Clean Serbia” project officially began, which the construction of about 5,200 kilometers of sewage network is announced and 165 wastewater treatment plants, which includes almost half of Serbia’s total infrastructure needs in this area, part is the statement and interpretation of the mentioned report.