Petr Kubala is the director general of Povodí Vltavy.[1]
Statement on reservoirs in October 2026
On 8 October 2026 he appeared on Czech Television. He said that the reservoirs intended primarily for supplying residents with drinking water are sufficiently full and that no restrictions on supply are expected. As an example he cited the drinking-water reservoir on the Želivka, which also supplies Prague and is 80 percent full.[1][2]
The statement was related to the Vodní nádrž Husinec in the Prachatice area, where the storage space has dried up. According to Kubala, the reservoir has reached its lowest operating level and releases only as much water as flows into it. He does not regard this as a problem, because it serves only as a backup source for Prachatice, which draws water from the South Bohemian water supply system and from the Římov reservoir.[1][2]
According to him, the hydrological situation across the Vltava basin persists and follows on from the situation in 2025. On 8 October most flows in the watercourses were below the drought threshold. The rainfall that the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute forecasts for the next ten days will not help the Vltava basin, Kubala said. Restoring flows and raising reservoir levels would require two to four months of rain, in his view.[1][2]
Kubala said: "The water shortage keeps deepening, and we will see what this autumn will be like and especially what the winter will be like."[1]
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Sources
- ČTK / České noviny — 8 October 2026
- Novinky.cz — 8 October 2026