WASH Incident Report No.39 Date: 11/03/2017

Location: Popasnyanskyi rayon ( GCA),

Prepared by: Volodymyr Kalinin, WASH Cluster IMO

CARBONIT SYSTEM SHELLING AND REPAIRS:

Near , in Government Controlled Areas (GCA) of , the area around a pumping station and 1200 mm diameter water pipelines of the Catrbonit system was again under night-time shelling from 10 – 11 March 2017.

A flexible pipe joint was damaged by soil movement due to the shelling, exacerbating damage incurred on 1st March 2017. As a result, water supply to Non- Government Controlled Areas (NGCA) was significantly reduced overnight from 1200 to 300 cubic meters per hour by PVK so that repair works can be completed. According to PVK, repair work should be finished until the end of today, 11 March 2017, with the volume of water supplied returned to normal levels of 1400 m3 per hour.

The main water pipelines ensure water supply to around 400, 000 people in Luhansk NGCA (Pervomaisk, Stakhanov, Brianka, , Kranyi Luch, ). There are two pipelines but one of them has not been in operation due to the significantly damages since 2015. The flow in the water pipeline, was reduced from 1400 to 1200 cubic meters per hour due to the last shelling on 1 March 2017. The pumping stations and Western Filter Station continue to operate in normal mode.

Officially, Carbonit system supplies safe drinking water to over 460, 000 people from Luhansk GCA and NGCA (Pervomaisk, Stakhanov, Brianka, Alchevsk, , Antratsyt). Since the beginning of the March 2017, the Carbonit system was shelled at least three times. This represents an upscale of violence because before recent incidents this area was last shelled in the summer of 2015.

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