The destruction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP) has had severe environmental consequences, as shown in a new viral video.
From the same location, the footage shows how much the water had subsided. Gerashchenko said on Monday morning that levels were decreasing by six to seven centimeters per hour and that they had fallen to 10.07 meters . As of Monday, the 20-second video had been viewed more than 124,000 times.on Sunday that 70 percent of water, or 13.95 cubic kilometers, from the reservoir had been lost.
The collapse of the dam has sent water cascading downstream. It has flooded 230 square miles of territory, inundating towns and villages as rescuers desperately try to get residents to safety. Samir Chalhoub is the regional policy and advocacy adviser for Mercy Corps, which is monitoring the humanitarian consequences of the destroyed dam. He toldthat the danger to civilians in the flooded areas"are mounting by the hour" amid reports of elderly people and those with disabilities stuck in high waters.
Chalhoub said contamination is"putting the most vulnerable at high risk of health complications." There were also reports of unexploded ordinances such as landmines being dislodged by the flooding,"posing an immediate and lethal risk to those who remain."
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