The Adaptation Fund/UNDP Integrated Climate Resilient Transboundary Flood Risk Management in the Drin River basin in the Western Balkans (Albania, Montenegro and North Macedonia) Project (Drin FRM Project) aims to assist the riparian countries in the implementation of an integrated climate-resilient river basin flood risk management approach in order to improve their existing capacity to manage flood risk at regional, national and local levels and to enhance resilience of vulnerable communities in the Drin River Basin (DRB) to climate-induced floods. A sub-project of the Drin FRM Project is the Restoration of the Sateska River and diversion in its natural riverbed.

Sateska River is the largest tributary river in the Ohrid Lake watershed. Its spring is in the mountain part of Debarca area while the middle and downstream part of the river spreads in the lowland area of Ohrid and Struga. In 1961, the riverbed of Sateska River was diverted from its natural flow pathway to Crni Drim River to the Lake Ohrid for three reasons: to reduce the siltation of a Globocica reservoir (artificial lake) along the Black Drim, to drain the Struga Marsh wetlands for agriculture and to increase the hydroelectric potential of the lake.