Mariupol has not a single lab left to test water quality, expert says

Mariupol city council's member Maksym Borodin said it in a comment for Rubryka.

The deteriorating epidemiological situation in Mariupol and the risk of cholera and other infectious diseases spreading in the city are happening because the russians destroyed the city's water supply system, and testing water quality is impossible.

Maksym Borodin, Mariupol City Council deputy, who advocates the fight against environmental pollution in Ukraine's industrial cities, told this during a conversation about the situation in Mariupol. He drew attention to the fact that the water supply and water treatment system were almost destroyed:

"When the occupiers tried to give people water supply for their apartments, most of the water ended up near houses: it flooded all the potholes, all the places where there was rubbish, and where people were buried. Water takes this microflora with it and gets to the sources where people take water. There are several in Mariupol, and people use them."

Maksym Borodin draws attention to the fact that laboratories in the city, where it would be possible to conduct water testing, are currently destroyed:

"As far as I know, there are no laboratories left in Mariupol; the former laboratory of the sanitary-epidemiological station in the city was burned and destroyed, and the russian army destroyed all equipment. Even the occupiers showed it on their television a month ago. No independent experts came to Mariupol either, and the russians did not let them in. Therefore, it is clear that no tests have been performed, and the probability of an outbreak of cholera or Escherichia coli exists."

Find out more about Mariupol's possible cholera outbreak in the Rubryka article.