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By the way it is known that Ruse was one of the towns with the least water in Bulgaria. There was a special profession – sakkanadzhia [‘sakka’ means water barrel on wheels in Turkish]. The people went to the Danube, filled their barrels with water and went around the houses to sell it. In every house there was a cone turned upside down made of limestone. The procedure was the following: the cone was filled with the water from the sakkanadzia, the water was filtered through the limestone and poured into a pot placed under the cone. That was how we got drinking water in Ruse. We used wells for our everyday household needs, but we didn't drink from them. The wells in Ruse were very deep. There were also a lot of dry wells, which were used to keep food cool.
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Bulgaria
Interview
Yako Yakov