According to Reuters, the dam is 98 feet tall and 2 miles long and the reservoir it created holds 4.3 cubic miles of water. Releasing that water can have repercussions such as property damage, threats to human health, and even damage to key infrastructure.
Rescue workers help residents evacuate from a flooded neighborhood in Kherson, Ukraine, on Tuesday. dam on the Dnipro River in the Ukrainian city of Nova Kakhovka has damaged homes and is posing a threat to residents, animals, crops and public infrastructure. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, which he attributed to Russia, “an environmental bomb of mass destruction.”
The dam is part of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant in Ukraine's Kherson region, which has been occupied by Russia as part of war against its smaller neighbor. The Dnipro River is the frontline between Russian and Ukrainian forces. The governments of Russia and Ukraine are blaming each other, saying the dam was destroyed by an explosion orchestrated by their enemy. U.S. agencies have intelligence suggesting that Russia is the culprit and a senior NATO officialand the reservoir it created holds 4.3 cubic miles of water — roughly as much as the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Releasing that much water will have massive repercussions.The Ukrainian government says that more than 40,000 people along the Dnipro are at risk of flooding.
“Footage from Kherson showed rooftops floating down the river and other homes half submerged, and floodwaters are expected to peak by Wednesday,”
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