On April 29, a sewer drain collapsed and malfunctioned on Mendeleyev Street in Engels. As a result of the emergency, nearly 200,000 people celebrated the May holidays without water. For Engels, that's 95% of the population. Efforts to fix the problem have been underway for almost a month. A municipal state of emergency has been declared in the city. This news might not have spread publicly—a novelty for Russia!—but Engels is a special city, a ci…
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On April 29, a sewer drain collapsed and malfunctioned on Mendeleyev Street in Engels. As a result of the emergency, nearly 200,000 people celebrated the May holidays without water. For Engels, that's 95% of the population. Efforts to fix the problem have been underway for almost a month. A municipal state of emergency has been declared in the city. This news might not have spread publicly—a novelty for Russia!—but Engels is a special city, a ci…