{"id":171823,"date":"2023-06-17T07:20:51","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T11:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=171823"},"modified":"2023-06-17T07:22:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T11:22:29","slug":"huge-us-directed-tragedy-700000-people-without-clean-water-as-fallout-from-nova-kakhovka-flooding-mounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=171823","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">HUGE US-PERPETRATED TRAGEDY! 700,000 People Without Clean Water As Fallout From Nova Kakhovka Flooding Mounts<\/span><\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>While much media reporting on the June 6th destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine has focused on the &#8216;whodunnit&#8217; 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.<\/p>\n<p>Basic infrastructure and utilities have been destroyed in much of the region, leaving an\u00a0<strong>estimated 700,000 people in the broader area in need of clean water<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img inline-images image-style-inline-images\" role=\"group\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/damdest.jpg?itok=A6MjUrrE\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"51969a9b-d8dd-4890-a421-a627c7168376\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><figcaption><em>Via AP<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Al Jazeera<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/6\/16\/fears-of-environmental-disaster-mount-after-ukraine-dam-blast\">writes<\/a>\u00a0that &#8220;Among displaced communities along the banks of Ukraine\u2019s Dnipro River, bottled water has become the most coveted commodity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is all poisoned,&#8221; a representative with the\u00a0NGO Project Hope told the publication, describing the impacted population as &#8220;very tired&#8221; and &#8220;very stressed&#8221; due to the ongoing humanitarian disaster.<\/p>\n<p><em>Al Jazeera<\/em>\u00a0observes that &#8220;The man-made flood washed away chemical fertilisers from cultivated fields, flushed away pollutants from the riverbed, submerged cemeteries and released<strong>\u00a0at least 150 tonnes of machine oil from the breached dam with additional fuel and industrial waste<\/strong>\u00a0likely to have been discharged from plants around it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are growing fears the floodwaters could bring waterborne diseases based on decomposing bodies &#8211; both human and animal &#8211; which were killed during the initial massive flooding. Health workers are concerned over possible cholera outbreaks in particular.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine&#8217;s President Volodymyr Zelensky has continued to maintain that Russia had deliberately blown up the dam as &#8220;an act of terrorism&#8221;, calling it a &#8220;brutal ecocide&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But the Kremlin has pointed out it would have no reason to blow up a critical piece of infrastructure vital to sending water to the Crimea. Western officials and media reports too have grown largely quiet in terms of any potential &#8220;investigation&#8221; into which side was behind the sabotage.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/700000-people-without-clean-fallout-nova-kakhovka-flooding-mounts\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/700000-people-without-clean-fallout-nova-kakhovka-flooding-mounts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}