Shilki village is located about 25 kilometers from Vitebsk, almost on the border with Senno district. Here, apart from the summer residents, 9 homes, the vast majority of whom live retired, and since the beginning of December, they have no source of water.
The legacy of the former kolkhoz and dairy farm in Shilki remained pumping station to the water tower, and she fed three village column. The water was so-so - with an iron flavor and leaves a strong scale on dishes - but she was.
According to the stories of villagers in early December during a strong wind in Shilki night several times disappeared electricity. After this "Ash Night" and stopped working pump station. The villagers were left without their own source of water.
Treatment of villagers to the leadership of the village council and the local State Farm requested to repair the pump without success: the authorities responded pensioners that neither technical nor financial resources for repair are not available. Say, wriggle themselves. Even the centralized water delivery for people living here for a month to organize no one bothered.
Retirees who worked all his life in agriculture, also keep livestock: rabbits, cows, one woman has a horse. The nearest water source is located in the nearby village Skrydlevo - up column, which runs about a mile from Shylock. By virtue of whether the elderly, and the oldest inhabitant far beyond eighty, to coach at a distance of water for themselves and their pets?
D., who moved here in the late 1980s from the Crimea - the husband wanted to return to their homeland, tells how the villagers can be turned out, the authorities have forgotten:
- In all containers that is, collect rainwater and melted water. Now after the thaw and snow came running - can clean the room. Helping a neighbor who has a horse - brought a can of water. But her most difficult - except horse lonely woman holding two more cows, what we have to ask residents Skrydlevo that they were recruited in advance for her water. Today came from Vitebsk son could refill water.
Elderly woman now and then can't hold her tears:
- We did nothing, no one ask, hay and straw harvests themselves. But do not deserve their labor and taxes on the age at least water? After all, the cow can not explain that broken pump, it is not a person who will not tolerate, she asks to drink.
One villager has a well, he's a bit saves, but drink this water banned sanitary station - around swamps and water is dangerous for health.
According to the villagers' problems with water in their village are observed almost every year, especially after a Shilki not become farm. But this time, according to their experiences, breakage, no one is going to eliminate and locals simply abandoned to their fate.
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