Albanian villages surround Culjkova, so the roads to town run through hostile territory. News report archive A visit to this village, and to others like it isolated in the mountains, Serb and Albanian, is like a step back in time. Tiny houses with red tile roofs sit on every level piece of ground. Most homes have no indoor plumbing. Foul-smelling shallow outhouses sit behind most homes and schools.
Some houses have springs or wells in the yards.
Other families use communal wells. Still other villages depend on streams for drinking water. In the mountains the streams are clean. In the valleys most are polluted. The water has a high lead content.