Only 3% of Mariupol residents have access to water

Ukraine Gate – Kyiv – July 4, 2022- Petro Andryushenko, advisor to the Mayor of Mariupol, reported that water remained the main problem in Mariupol temporarily occupied by Russian forces, to which today only three percent of the town’s population has access.
“The water problem is still the main problem of the city, the residents of Mariupol are forced to walk kilometers in the morning to join queues at water collection points, if I’m lucky to write, water is collected everywhere, including sewage wells,” Andryushenko wrote. Where water appeared after experiments on the water supply in general, up to three percent of the population of Mariupol has access to water.”
And he posted two videos of people queuing to get water and fetch water from a sewage well.
The author of the publication also emphasized that water of minimum acceptable quality is not available in the city today, and the mayor’s advisor stressed that ” Mariupol needs urgent external intervention to overcome the water crisis.”
Earlier, it was reported that in Mariupol, invaders reported that more than 500 homes were connected to the water supply, but there is still a shortage of water.
Russian aggression also caused one of the largest humanitarian disasters in Mariupol, the city was almost completely destroyed as a result of enemy bombing, and more than 100,000 residents remain in the forbidden city. Mariupol is threatened by an environmental disaster and an outbreak of infectious diseases.