KAKHOVKA DAM – GEOGRAPHY
News: Ukraine
accuses Russia of destroying major dam near Kherson, warns of widespread
flooding
What is in the news?
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Recently, the Kakhovka
dam in southern Ukraine was blown up in the midst of war.
Consequences:
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Flooding homes, streets
and businesses downstream;
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Depleting water levels
upstream that help cool Europe’s largest nuclear power plant;
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Draining supplies of
drinking water to the south in Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed.
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The Kakhovka Dam was a major hydroelectric power plant and
reservoir in southern Ukraine.
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It was situated in the Dnieper River.
○ The
Dnieper River is drained into the Black
Sea.
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The dam also supplied
water to the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014, and to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which
is under Russian control.