A young boy holds a bottle of water on June 12 during a humanitarian aid distribution in Mykhailivka, Kherson Oblast. An estimated 700,000 people in southern Ukraine are running short of water as water levels continue to drop at Kakhovka reservoir after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam on June 6. Photo: Ashley Chan/VCG

Residents of Fedorivka examine their flooded garden on June 12. As water levels in Kherson Oblast started to recede on June 9, some residents of the southern Ukrainian city have returned to their homes to deal with the aftermath of the flooding. However, relief efforts have been hindered by a lack of drinking water, electricity shortages and floating land mines. Photo: Ashley Chan/VCG

A man straps empty water cartons to his motorbike in Kherson Oblast on June 12. Photo: Ashley Chan/VCG

A house is found in disarray on Wednesday from floodwater damage. Photo: Ercin Erturk/VCG

An estuary was found drained on Friday along the banks of a river in Marianske, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. The emptying of the Kakhovka reservoir has resulted in environmental devastation within the regional ecosystem, impacting three oblasts — Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk. Photo: Narciso Contreras/VCG

Seaweed is exposed in a drained estuary in Marianske, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Photo: Narciso Contreras/VCG

The water level of the Kakhovka reservoir, which is situated near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southern Ukraine, has dropped from its level on June 5. Photo: VCG

Houses are inundated and polluted by oil in a flooded neighborhood in Kherson Oblast, on June 10. The collapse of Kakhovka dam is swiftly degenerating into a long-term environmental catastrophe. Photo: VCG