A Ukrainian nuclear plant is facing a water shortage
The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant used a large reservoir for cooling water. Now that reservoir is rapidly draining.
kakhovka reservoir
Seismic stations detected explosion at Ukrainian dam around the time it collapsed
A Norwegian organization says that two seismic networks it oversees saw an explosion at the war-torn Kakhovka dam in Ukraine around the time it failed.
A shrinking reservoir signals Ukraine and Russia are waging a dangerous water war
Russia is using a dam it controls to release water from Ukraine's massive Kakhovka Reservoir. It's one of dozens of cases where the war is limiting access to safe water.
Russia is draining a massive Ukrainian reservoir, endangering a nuclear plant
Satellite data show water levels plummeting at the Kakhovka Reservoir. The reservoir supplies drinking water, irrigates vast tracts of farmland, and cools Europe's largest nuclear plant.