The Ukrainian government has allocated 41 million U.S. dollars to provide drinking water to areas affected by the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam.
The State Agency for Restoration and Infrastructure Development said this on Wednesday.
The agency also said the government will build a main water pipeline in southern Ukraine to restore water supply to towns and villages facing shortages.
The 87-kilometre-long pipeline would have three sections, with combined capacity to pump about 300,000 cubic meters of water per day.
Parts of the Dnipropetrovsk region in central Ukraine and the Zaporizhzhia, Mykolayiv and Kherson regions in southern Ukraine would also face water shortage due to the incident at the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant, the agency added.
It explained that the destruction of the dam at the plant caused a drop in the Kakhovka water reservoir level and massive flooding in the surrounding areas.
According to Ukraine’s state-run nuclear energy operator — Energoatom, the dam’s destruction may negatively affect Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
Russia and Ukraine have traded accusations over the attack on the hydroelectric power plant.
