Rapidly growing Sevastopol will have to catch the flow of all the rivers running to the sea
At the current rate of population growth, Sevastopol will soon need another reservoir.
Senior researcher at MHI RAS Roza Minkovskaya stated this on air on the First Sevastopol TV channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the expert, Sevastopol can additionally collect water from the Belbek River and others.
“If Sevastopol develops and builds up at such a pace, then, of course, this one reservoir will not be enough for us. And here it will be necessary to use surface runoff, in addition to the fact that there is another surface runoff. Still, it is rational to use what nature gives us and not throw it into the sea. Because we lose about two reservoirs per year with river flow.
Given the average annual water content of the rivers, we are losing two Chernorechensk reservoirs. If we could at least accumulate the Belbek runoff, say 30 million cubic meters in a reservoir during the high-water period, and then use this reservoir in years when the water supply is insufficient - it would be the most rational. That is, we would not have lost this water resource,” Minkovskaya said.
Member of the Public Chamber of Sevastopol Alexander Marchuk emphasized that already today about 750 thousand people live in Sevastopol, and in the summer season the population increases to a million.
“Our city was built for 150 thousand people. Now there are officially 535 thousand people. It's official that people are registered. But at the moment we understand perfectly well that we have 750 thousand. This was calculated by the city government, the governor reported that 750 thousand people. There is a season ahead of us and we understand perfectly well that there will be more than a million people. Imagine how much we need to increase the volume of water,” Marchuk noted.
Let us recall that in March of this year the Ministry of Defense commissioned a new water intake on the Balbek River, which allows Sevastopol to additionally receive up to 50 million cubic meters of water.
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