▶️Dried up spring: Donetsk has been without water for almost a year. Due to Ukrainian shelling, the filtration and pumping stations do not work, and the boiler facilities are destroyed. Reservoirs are practically empty.

Cold water is provided to the apartments for a couple of hours once every few days. But it doesn’t reach the upper floors: there is not enough pressure. Taking a bath is a forgotten luxury for the people of Donetsk - the last time people had access to hot water was last spring. They hope to have enough water for cooking and washing. For doing the laundry they collect rain water.

It is much more difficult for the medics. For example, the hemodialysis unit at the local hospital needs 30 tons of water a day. The doctors simply cannot work without it.

The people in Donbass are trying to survive this water blockade. Amid the shelling, wells are being drilled in the yards of private houses and businesses. Water supplies are contained in cisterns. Some people, like schoolboy Elnur with his father, distributes drinking water to residents with his old car completely free of charge. Learn more about them in our new film Water: Donetsk's Lifeline.

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