Komsomolsk is a city of about 50,000 (another source says 300,000) on Barbara Lake in Poltava oblast (state) in the Ukraine. It's been having problems with its drinking water probably due to heavy mining in the area, as both mining and metals companies are active in the area. So, a combo of these mining and metals companies, umbrellaèd under an entity named
Metinvest (with connections to United Coal Company, Blountville, Tennessee, USA) have taken up the social task of renewing Komsomolsk's drinking water supply. Aside from this instance of corporate social responsiblity in Ukraine (in English and Ukraininian below, notice the background info we found on Metinvest also below). Wikipedia tells us that the oblast is a humming center of industry: "
The oblast’ is a center of Ukraine's oil and natural gas industry, with many wells and pipelines situated here. There is a major oil refinery plant in the city of Kremenchuk. Important iron ore processing facilities also present. In general there are 374 large industrial organization and 618 small industrial organizations."
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Business and Human Rights (Dec1,2k12)
METINVEST TO FINANCE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW DRINKING WATER WELLS IN KOMSOMOLSKE
Metinvest, an international vertically integrated group of metals and mining companies headquartered at United Coal Company in Blountville, Tenessee USA, has allocated more than UAH 1 million for construction of new drinking water wells in Komsomolske, Poltava, Ukraine, as part of its
Social Partnership Program. This is the second phase of the program, which aims to provide citizens of Komsomolske with
safe, clean drinking water. In 2011, Metinvest purchased a
water treatment plant for approximately UAH 1.5 million. More (in Ukrainian) can be found
here
Or read it in Ukrainian on refWrite-experiment ... also read info in English on the background of Metinvest
