1995 Kharkiv drinking water disaster

Water contamination event in Ukraine August 2016 On June 29, 1995, the drinking water supply in Kharkiv, Ukraine was polluted due to flooding. Tap water was cut off in the city for about a month. Chronology On June 29, 1995, torrential rain flooded the streets of Kharkiv. The Dykanivka wastewater treatment plant was flooded as well,Tatiana Zhurzhenko Borderlands into Bordered Lands: Geopolitics of Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine https://books.google.com/books?id=pt03BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA211 15 April 2014 Columbia University Press 978-3-8382-6042-6 211 since it was designed to collect water from the city's storm drains along with sewage. This resulted in spill of polluted and untreated water into the nearby Udy River. To prevent further spillage, the local authorities stopped tap water supply for the entire city until water was pumped out of the flooded well and pumps were replaced. It took about a month to resume supply of treated tap water. During this period the local authorities established limited drinking water distribution to organizations (including hospitals) and the population.Rupert James Water Cutoff in Ukraine's Second City Raises Fears of Cholera Epidemic The Washington Post July 15, 1995 https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-843718.html https://web.archive.org/web/20161008201956/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-843718.html October 8, 2016 HighBeam Research subscription usurped Drinking water was brought up by tank trucks to designated areas for distribution. Several international organizationshttp://ocha-gwapps1.unog.ch/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/ACOS-64D8L5?OpenDocument Ukraine-Kharkov Environmental Emergency Jul 1995: Situation Reports 1-4 (archive copy) 1995-07-20 2010-07-20 dead ReliefWeb https://web.archive.org/web/20110707005652/http://ocha-gwapps1.unog.ch/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/ACOS-64D8L5?OpenDocument 2011-07-07 including NATO provided assistance.Constantine Christopher Menges Partnerships for Peace, Democracy, and Prosperity https://books.google.com/books?id=ufXeAAAAMAAJ 1 January 1997 Program on Transitions to Democracy and University Press of America 978-0-7618-0796-4 90 This was the first instance of cooperation between NATO and Ukraine."Civil preparedness", NATOAugust 2016 Webpage does not mention this incident References 2 External links "Environmental disaster shuts down Ukrainian city", Green Left Weekly, 2 August 1995 Category:Engineering failures Category:1995 industrial disasters Category:20th century in Kharkiv Category:Water supply and sanitation in Ukraine Category:Industrial accidents and incidents in Ukraine Category:Environmental disasters in Ukraine Category:June 1995 in Europe Category:Health disasters in Ukraine Category:1995 disasters in Ukraine