(20 Jan 2015) The Secerbegovic family survived the war and the 1995 Srebrenica massacre before settling down in the calm Sarajevo neighbourhood of Ilidza, looking for a quiet residential area to live in.
But the house they built has been battered by floods 25 times since 2000.
Almir Secerbegovic, an unemployed construction worker, walked around in disbelief as he shovelled water out of his yard on Tuesday.
Heavy overnight rainfall caused rivers to rise in the Sarajevo area on Monday and flooded homes in the suburbs for the fifth time in the past 20 months.
Some 140 houses in Ilidza - near the river Bosna which is prone to burst its banks once or twice a year - were flooded.
Almir blames local authorities for not doing anything to prevent the constant flooding.
"Just in the last year, we were flooded three times. And nothing changes. Everything is the same, everything is repeated, nothing happens," he told the Associated Press.
Secerbegovic, who lives with his wife, two children and his mother, says the family is struggling to constantly rebuild the house after the floods.
Residents are cleaning up the waters from inside their homes, and no official state help has arrived.
The Sarajevo suburb of has always been prone to flooding, but residents claim that the construction of a nearby highway has changed the flow of river Bosna, making it burst its banks just after a day or two of rainfall.
Bosnians have still not recovered from the devastating floods in May, the worst in 120 years.
The flooding displaced 90,000 people and left 43,000 homes in need of repair.
The floods devastated the agriculture industry, infrastructure, farms, buildings and homes in about 40 percent of the country.
Rain is expected to continue to fall for the rest of the week.
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