Tbilisi, DFWatch – Hailstorm once again hit Telavi and Kvareli municipalities, heartland of Georgia’s grape growing and wine producing Kakheti region in Eastern Georgia, badly damaging famous vineyards, as well as watermelon and corn fields.
Environment
Small landslide in village near Tbilisi, origin of catastrophic flood
TBILISI, DFWatch–There was a small landslide this morning in a village near Tbilisi, the same place where a landslide caused a catastrophic flood wave in a river valley June 13.
Thursday’s landslide damaged a road and utility pipe which supplies households
Flooded areas of Tbilisi are being disinfected
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Health Ministry in Georgia has sent teams to disinfect five areas that were hit by a disastrous flood in Tbilisi on June 14 to prevent the spread of disease.
Health Minister Davit Sergeenko named the targeted areas as Mziuri Park, Zoo, Svanidze Street,
Explanations differ about what caused disastrous flood in Tbilisi
TBILISI, DFWatch–The clean-up effort continues after Sunday’s flood, which left at least 17 dead, as attention turns to what might have caused such a disaster. A handful of reasons have been given, which all may be grouped according to political affiliation.
Some people blame
Landslide victim found after ten days of search
TBILISI, DFWatch–After ten days of search, rescue workers discovered the body of a shepherd who was taken by a landslide on June 2 along with hundreds of sheep and cows.
Giorgi Shetikauri, 52, was discovered in the morning on June 12 under the ruins of hut in Shatili.
Hard rain destroys vineyards in Georgia
TBILISI, DFWatch–Hard rain continues to batter Georgia and over the weekend partly destroyed vineyards in villages Argokhi, Maghraani and Babaneuri in Akhmeta region, eastern Georgia.
Hail stones also damaged the roofs of several houses in the villages Zemo
Storm continues to cause damage in Georgia
TBILISI, DFWatch–Hailstorm and rain continues to destroy crops, kill poultry and livestock and flood houses in several parts of Georgia.
Last evening, a hailstorm hit the Dusheti region and the flooded river carried away poultry and livestock.
“It was raining with hail for
Anti-hail rockets deployed to save crops in Georgia
TBILISI, DFWatch–An anti-hail system was activated yesterday and for the first time helped partly prevent a hailstorm from destroying harvest in Kakheti. But part of the harvest was destroyed because the system started functioning 20 minutes late.
The State Security
Court decides that RMG Gold must allow inspection of ancient mine
TBILISI, DFWatch–A court in Georgia on Wednesday decided that a mining company must allow experts access to a site so they can inspect an ancient gold mine which was destroyed last December.
Tbilisi City Court ruled that the parties in the conflict, experts and witnesses
Govt coalition sabotaged vote over inquest into destruction of ancient site
TBILISI, DFWatch–Parliament in Georgia again failed to create a commission to study the destruction of an ancient gold mine in December.
Scientists have found more than 5,400 years old human artefacts in the Sakdrisi cave near Bolnisi, but the archaeologically