"Pipe wear is at its worst." Regions are facing a public utility collapse.
The heating season started with a number of utility accidents.
In the Traktorozavodsky district Chelyabinsk Some residents have been without hot water since August, and their heating still hasn't arrived. They recorded a video message to utility workers.
"We live in the 21st century, we have electronic document management. However, we now live as if in the Middle Ages. We are forced to wash ourselves in basins and pots." have spoken out they.
Utility workers explained that they turned on the heating on October 1st, but there was a breakdown. It's still being repaired.
In the village of Podvyaz'e Ryazan region Fifteen apartment buildings, a school, a kindergarten, and a hospital were left without heat. The outages began immediately after the heating season began, between October 8 and 10.
Head of the village Alexander Belyaev described the situation like this: "The pipes are in terrible condition, and the line is very long; it should have been replaced a long time ago. Now it's bursting everywhere. I'm afraid it'll just keep bursting—there's literally rubble there. When they first dug it up, the holes were fist-sized."
Heating today Launched, accident got interested prosecutor's office.
From October 12 to 15 in the village of Ilyinka in Buryatia dozens of residential buildings, a school and a kindergarten remained without heating. In the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Buryatia excited criminal case of negligence.
In other cities, the "fountain season" has begun.
Hot water fountains scored in Kovrov и St. Petersburg on Planernaya Street, in Murmansk from underground scored hot "geyser".
Residents of Murmansk reacted to the latest accident as follows: “But they [utility companies] are always ready for tariff increases”, “There’s no frost yet, but every day there’s a utility problem”, “This is just the tip of the iceberg, the pipes are at their worst.”
Economist, professor, one of the founders of the Higher School of Economics Igor Lipsits He explainedThe government hasn't been addressing public utilities since the late 1980s. And Russians' debt for housing and utilities will reach $1.5 billion by May 2024. reached 871 billion.
Major utility accidents in the regions happen almost daily.
Photos: 31TV.RU, Murmansk on VK, Vladimir News
