Brewery

“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 litres of water.”

- Muhamed Poljo, Pensioner

“It was my turn, and I had just put my 20-liter canister under the running water, when I heard a whizzing sound, and I saw that shell; it was going down the street like a car, down that narrow, steep, narrow street. It occurred to me that I should lie down, crouch, or something. But I didn’t manage to do anything. The shell hit a building. People fell to the ground. Everyone automatically started running into the large building of the Health Clinic, which was concrete. Only I separated from them and ran to a traditional Bosnian house whose door was closed and locked. I banged and banged so hard on the door, until an old woman opened the door and led me to her storeroom, where she and her grandchildren had taken cover.”

- Maja Tulić, Citizen

“One of the first actions after that was to turn the industrial waterworks of the Sarajevo Brewery, which was for the Brewery only, within the Brewery walls, into a water supply. And then we first made an installation in front of the Brewery, within the Brewery walls, to make some water collecting points, where the citizens would come to take water, with all the cisterns municipal ones, even the ones from UNPROFOR. Everybody came to get Brewery’s water supply.”

- Arif Halimić, Professor at the School of Civil Engineering