Many in the Luhansk region have to rely on water trucks or travel to neighboring villages to get water. In Mariupol, a city of 500,000 in the Donetsk region, they rely on water from a "rapidly depleting" reservoir, UNICEF said.
"Water is one of the most acute needs of children and adults in eastern Ukraine," Giovanna Barberis, UNICEF representative to Ukraine, said in a statement.
"No children and families should have to risk their lives in order to access one of life's basic necessities for survival."
With little rain and high temperatures, conditions are becoming increasingly difficult. The risk of waterborne diseases is also rising as people are unable to store and transport water safely, UNICEF said.
UNICEF said more humanitarian partners are needed for the emergency water and sanitation response. The agency and its partners have been supplying water to some 550,000 residents in the region since January.
Almost 1.4 million people have been displaced within the Ukraine since the conflict between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists began in March 2014. More than 5 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, including 1.7 million children, said UNICEF.
The agency said it received only 19 percent of its appeal for $55.8 million to meet urgent the humanitarian needs of children and families in the region this year.
Why do they call it a "US" backed war? Myself and many many millions of North Americans have absolutely nothing to do with this "war" and do not support the endless wars and want peace. Nobody here wants all this to continue!!
The writers of these articles need to start calling it what it is and not keep saying names like "US" or USA. Not sure what to call them, as "they" have many names (the powers that be, the Globalists, the global elitists, the illuminate, the banksters, the new world order monsters...them, those are the ones perpetrating all this continual mess of deceitfulness and trickery.
These corrupted people should not be called "the US" or "Americans" as they are not all from North America. They are from various places around the world. They puppet the North American military industrial baloney complex yes, and do horrible stuff utilizing the CIA and NSA and all the other acronyms. But, the average North American has nothing to do with all the bad stuff "they" cause around the globe. This should be obvious to more humans around the world (and especially North Americans) but most folks have been rendered clueless and anesthetized by the main stream media (movies, video gams, television, magazines, newspapers etc, --all owned and propagated by "them" or their puppet masters) and just blindly believe whatever they have pushed on them. But we regular Americans don't support this stuff!
Embarrassingly, many Americans probably don't know where the Ukraine is, or perhaps even what it is. (not kidding here). Many, especially the youth are completely clueless to the Federal Reserve shenanigans. They don't even think of questioning the money system here.
I am a North American and I did not support any of the so called "wars" in Iraq. Although I did not know what it was at the time, I did know it was a bunch of lies the true reason the American military was sent over there was for some other nefarious agenda of "them".
Didn't mean to write so much... My point is I feel a bit of frustration when so much bad stuff is labeled "US" (meaning the USA) and it is not true! I don't support all their wicked agendas and neither do most Americans. Americans and pretty much every one else in the world is just overwhelmed by "them" at this point (as they have been at this for hundreds of years) and the only way to change/stop their atrocities would be an awakening, an awareness, and then, a world wide revolution. It would have to be world wide as they have so much power and resources.