ICRC completes projects to improve water supply in South Ossetia

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is ready to complete the water-supply projects in villages of South Ossetian by the end of this year.

In the villages, where the ICRC had undertaken to lay water pipes, the works will be completed by the end of November. They were interrupted for a short time due to a suspension in imports of construction material, as Marina Tedeti, an employee of the PR division of the ICRC mission in South Ossetia, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

"All water projects are rather resource intensive. The ICRC's decision to launch them was based on requests of residents and local administrations, and on feasibility the projects as such," Ms Tedeti has added.

In some South-Ossetian villages, the Red Cross has implemented only irrigation projects, while drinking water supply in them has not yet been built. This applies, for example, to the village of Kornis, Znaur District, which has no source of drinking water for the last 15 years; and the few remaining residents have to bring water in buckets from a spring located a kilometre away from the village, as a villager Vyacheslav Djioev told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

"There are no more young people left in the village; just old people. And without conditions, especially without drinking water, the village is doomed to die. We have to carry water for a kilometre. What should we do: leave our homes?" he asked.

According to local residents, they tried to convey their problems in letters almost to all district authorities, but all was fruitless so far.