This is Buzhany village, what is in the north of Volyn region. Almost 900 people live here, a quarter of them are children. Last year the chemicals were found in drinking water here. In 1980th people buried barrels with pesticides in the village. The locals accidentally remembered about them when the boys who were searching for scrap metal in May, 2017. After that the head of the village started acting.
In the end of the summer they had the first expertise done. The experts discovered the pesticides and prohibited to drink water.
The head of the village decided to make new wells, and a new water supply. To do that they need two million hryvnias, but regional administration promised to solve the problem.
However, a miracle happened – the second expertise showed the pesticides disappeared. All the following checks proved it. Now, some month have passed after the last one. The locals have already forgotten about this problem, and there is no bottle water supply to the kindergarten anymore.
The head of the village said they have solved the problem. But the team of 12 Channel made a decision to check it. We took water from one of the yards near the village council office. The additional examination proved that the water is still poisoned.
So far, officials have no intention to solve this ecological problem. After all, the water is supposedly “clean”, but barrels with chemicals can not be removed. As a result, almost a thousand of locals and n drink water with carcinogens every day.