Ukraine has suspended water supply from the West Water Treatment Plant (ZFS) to several areas of the Lugansk People’s Republic, the Luganskvoda state unitary enterprise press service reported.
“Ukraine stopped water supply from the ZFS to the LPR territory at 12:00, July 13,” the report said. “According to preliminary information, a 1200 mm diameter water main of the ZFS-3 pumping station was damaged.”
Water feed was reduced to the Slavyanoserbsk district, Perevalsky district, Pervomaisk, Alchevsk, Petrovskoye, Bryanka, Stakhanov, Kirovsk and the adjacent settlements.
Luganskvoda said that water supply would go back to normal after the completion of the repairs.
Kiev supplies water to LPR territory via two main sources - the West Water Treatment Plant ZFS (Lisichansk area) and the Petrovskiy duct (Stanitsa Luganskaya area). In case the ZFS is shut off or significantly reduces the feed, Stakhanov, Kirovsk, Bryanka, Pervomaisk, Krasniy Luch, Antratsit and Alchevsk face a dramatic depletion of water supply. Lugansk and its Kamennobrodskiy district in particular mostly depend on the Petrovskiy water pipe.
The LPR’s state water company Luganskvoda reported that the Republic was provided with 84 percent of the water it needed from its own sources, Ukraine's input was reduced to 15 percent. Until May 12, 2014 overall 258 thousand cubic meters of water were supplied daily to the towns that are currently located in the LPR, and 132 thousand cubic meters were pumped from local sources. At present, LPR pumps 280,000 cubic meters of water a day from local sources and another 50,000 cubic meters are supplied from Kiev-controlled territory. In the pre-war period, the water supply volume reached 400,000 cubic meters a day. *i*t
