Black jeans, black tee shirts, black shirts, black leather jackets. The daffodils were in bloom and the fruit trees were covered with lightly tinted blossoms. You could see the air and their was nothing pretty in it. Today was the first hot day, it must have been about 85. Ominous for everyone without air conditioning and that is almost everyone, everywhere here.
Trash piles up in ad hoc dumps located around dumpsters, on the sides of roads, and in vacant lots.
A few blocks away, the same thing is happening. All across the city. Municipalities around western Europe have been asked for direct cooperation and assistance. According to the World Health Organization, the garbage situation is not yet of high risk to public health, yet it has affected the quality of life in Prishtina, where the expanded population has exacerbated the problems. The lack of equipment and the need for more skilled workers also contributed to the crisis.