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Lviv Water Outage Reaches Fourth Day, 50,000 Residents Still Without Water

City officials say full pipe replacement is unaffordable, citing a 10 billion-hryvnia cost.

Overview

  • A major failure at the municipal water utility has cut supplies across several districts of the western Ukrainian city.
  • Local media describe the breakdown as the largest water-utility accident in many years.
  • Utility crews report that after each repair, new ruptures appear on other sections of the deteriorating network.
  • Residents are standing in long queues to collect water while household taps remain dry.
  • First deputy mayor Andriy Moskalenko says the city does not have the roughly 10 billion hryvnias needed to replace all pipes at once.