Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky has said that hundreds of thousands of people could be left without clean drinking water.
The reservoir provides around 70 percent of the water for Kryvyi Rih, a city in in the Dnipropetrovsk region, where local authorities have asked people to stock drinking water. The destroyed dam may impact water supply to the Mykolaiv and Zaporizhya regions, as well as further south.occupying Crimea had admitted they can no longer count on the North Crimean Canal to supply water to the peninsula., which takes fresh water to the peninsula Russia seized in 2014.
"Many experts believe that this situation will deprive Crimea of water for many years," said Hurska, who is also an associate at Kyiv's International Center for Policy Studies. Tetyana Tymochko, who heads the Ukrainian Ecological League and is an environmental adviser to Kyiv told independent news outlet Ukrinform that the dam's destruction"will have huge negative consequences for agriculture throughout the region.
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