canals – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Thu, 27 Jul 2023 14:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg canals – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 The Aftermath of the Kakhovka Dam’s Destruction https://www.maproomblog.com/2023/07/the-aftermath-of-the-kakhovka-dams-destruction/ Thu, 27 Jul 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1817567 More]]> A pair of Landsat images showing the drainage of the Kakhovka Reservoir in Ukraine after the Kakhovka Dam was breached on 6 June 2023.
Kakhovka Reservoir on 7 June 2022 (top) and 18 June 2023 (bottom). Landsat 8/OLI and Landsat 9/OLI-2, respectively. NASA Earth Observatory/USGS/Lauren Dauphin.

NASA Earth Observatory has before-and-after satellite imagery showing the impact of the destruction of Ukraine’s Kakhovka Dam last month. The Kakhovka Reservoir is emptying out (above), the irrigation canals that relied on that reservoir are drying out, and there was flooding downriver of the dam in the immediate aftermath of the breach.

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