: :inin Kyiv (EET)

E. Ukraine Faces Water Crisis


The United Nations Children’s Fund warns up to 1.3 million people in battle-scarred areas of eastern Ukraine are facing a serious water crisis. UNICEF reports ongoing fighting between government forces and pro-Russian separatists are damaging or destroying water lines, leading to acute water shortages.

UNICEF says more than 470,000 people in rebel-controlled areas of the Luhansk region also lack a good water supply. This, it says, is forcing many families to travel to neighboring villages to get water from functioning wells.

UNICEF’s Regional Chief of Emergency for Central and Eastern Europe and CIS, Robert McCarthy, just returned from a 10-day …read more

Source: Voice of America

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