Saturday, June 17, 2023

700,000 People Without Clean Water As Fallout From Nova Kakhovka Flooding Mounts

"While much media reporting on the June 6th destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam in
southern
Ukraine has focused on the 'whodunnit' aspect to the explosion, many thousands of people downriver continue to suffer, after an nearly five cubic miles of water has submerged villages and farmland in the Kherson oblast. 
Basic infrastructure and utilities have been destroyed in much of the region, leaving an estimated 700,000 people in the broader area in need of clean water." ZH