In Lviv, about 50,000 people remain without water due to an accident at a water pump – city council

In Lviv, about 50,000 people remain without water due to an accident at a water pump – this is approximately 10% of the city’s population, the city council reported.

Work to eliminate the accident continues.

“Now about 50,000 Lviv residents are without water, which is 10% of the city. In particular, part of the Zaliznychny and Shevchenkiv districts… Water trucks deliver drinking water to people – their work has been continued until the system is fully restored,” the mayor’s office said in a statement.

The city council explains that after emptying the pipes, water fills the network again under pressure, because of this, water hammers and new breaks occur in old pipes – “the system “breaks” in the weakest places.”

In the morning, the local authorities reported that the accident at the water main was being eliminated for the second night in a row. “Lvivvodokanal” crews were replacing the damaged section of the pipe, which is already more than 70 years old. It was announced that water will start to be provided approximately from 15:00.