On Monday, the Riga City Council and the Tev association announced the shipment of a Latvian-made water purification station to Ukraine to assist the Kherson region, where hundreds of thousands of people were left without access to drinking water after the destruction of the Kakhovska Hydroelectric Power Plant dam.
As reported by LSM, the station filters water, purifying it from both chemical and microbiological pollutants up to 99.5%. The machine has a total water capacity of 5,000 liters and can purify 2,000 liters per hour. This is the first large station of its kind to arrive in Ukraine, and its production took about a month.
The project was fully financed by the Riga City Council, with a total cost of approximately 49,000 euros.
Reno Brinkis, a board member of the Tev association, said, "About two months ago, they [Riga City Council] voted to allocate 100,000 euros to the Tev association. We have already spent half of it; some time ago, we sent a special boat full of various tools, suitcases for water filtration. We spent half, and this is the second half."
Brinkis also mentioned that they have started raising donations on the charity portal Ziedot.lv for another water purification system of the same type.
Ukrainian Ambassador to Latvia, Anatoliy Kucevol, expressed his great satisfaction with the assistance from the Tev association and the Riga City Council, stating, "I am really pleased that we have such a mobile purification system, which will be useful not only for the city of Kherson but for the entire Kherson region. The more they can find out where purified water is needed the most and move the station there."
