Ukraine: Water Wars in East Ukraine

Jun 25, 2021 | Lily Hyde, Politico
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After seven years of war, life in eastern Ukraine’s Donbass region has been divided in every way — socially, politically, economically, militarily. The one exception to the rule: The Ukrainian state water company Voda Donbasu, which manages a vast Soviet-era water treatment and delivery system that straddles the front line and serves communities on both sides of the divide. Workers from the water utility company tread a political and literal minefield every day to provide both sides of the conflict with an essential for life itself: clean water. But the war threatens to cut the company in two and halt the flow altogether.