06.07.2007 - Source: Civil Georgia

6 Georgian villages in the conflict zone still suffer from irrigation water shortage ("Tbilisi Says S.Ossetia Water Shortage Problem Remains") [ID 20624]

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03.06.2007 - Source: Civil Georgia

Tskhinvali without potable water for nine days; damage in the pipeline caused intentionally and exacerbated by storm; water crises used as cause for further political tensions ("Water Crisis Remains Source for S.Ossetia Tensions") [ID 20290]

"Authorities in breakaway South Ossetia have threatened to cut water supplies to Georgian villages if Tskhinvali's supply isn't restored by 3 pm local time, Sunday.[…]  

The South Ossetian side claims that Tbilisi is preventing Ossetian workers from repairing the damaged pipeline in the Georgian-controlled villages to the north of Tskhinvali.  

As a result of this damage, which was caused initially by holes punched into the old pipeline for crop irrigation, and then exacerbated by storm-damage which caused it to break, Tskhinvali has been without potable water for nine days.[…]  

The OSCE Mission to Georgia, which acts as a facilitator between the parties, called for the resolutionm of the current water crisis “together as quickly as possible.” “Given the humanitarian nature of this crisis I urge all sides to concentrate on the speedy resolution of this crisis in order that tension does not rise further,” Ambassador Roy Reeve, Head of the OSCE Mission, said on June 2."

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28.02.2006 - Source: ReliefWeb

Report on humanitarian and development situation in South Ossetia and Abkhasia (security situation, prepatriation of refugees, internally displaced persons) ("Humanitarian and development update Feb 2006") [#46548],  [ID 5605]

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