...Olympic construction has left the mountain village of Akhshtyr without a reliable water supply for more than five years and has cut villagers off from public transportation and other services...In 2008 the authorities paved the dirt road running through the village...to a construction waste dump...used for Olympic construction, and in the process destroyed residents’ main drinking water wells...The authorities have promised repeatedly to rectify the absence of a reliable water supply in the village. Sochi Mayor...said he would resolve the lack of water when he...met with local residents in early December 2013...Beginning in 2009 Human Rights Watch has repeatedly informed the International Olympic Committee (IOC) about the water supply and other concerns in Akhshtyr...The IOC has shared this information with the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, which repeatedly sent assurances that the water supply problem had been resolved, or would soon be resolved – even when it had not...The heavy truck traffic has created large amounts of dust, which residents complain has adversely affected their health, property, livestock, and agriculture...Human Rights Watch has documented the Russian authorities’ failure to fairly compensate or relocate people whose homes and livelihoods have been severely compromised by Olympic construction...