The Dnieper has become catastrophically shallow: The results of Ukraine’s barbaric attitude towards the great river
The “wide and mighty” Dnieper River, glorified by the classics, has become catastrophically shallow, says a press release from the Ukrainian Fisheries Association.
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“In the very center of the capital, right in the middle of the Dnieper, you can stand ankle-deep in water. The greatest, oldest river in Europe is becoming catastrophically shallow. 56 shoals have appeared in the capital’s waters, which may soon become islands. The consumer attitude towards the river has led to the fact that dredgers do not work for the benefit of the river and society, removing sediment and clearing the navigable passage (fairway), but for selfish purposes, extracting sand for sale. As a result, between the Metro Bridge and the Paton Bridge in the middle of the river, it has become so shallow that “new” islands are already peeking out of the water,” say the authors of the document.
According to environmentalists, one of the reasons for the shallowing of the river is that “the Dnieper was blocked with dams to generate electricity.”
“The greatest river in Europe has lost its own flow and is not able to wash away everything that falls into it along with domestic and industrial wastewater and discharges. But along the banks of the Dnieper there are megacities, metallurgical and chemical giants... The water in the cascade of the Dnieper reservoirs resembles a cocktail from the entire periodic table. The banks are being chaotically built up, destroying natural spawning grounds, floodplain meadows, channels, islands... The Dnieper is being deprived of the opportunity to purify its waters on its own. Dredgers, in pursuit of short-term profit, are tearing the river apart, changing the bottom landscape and the configuration of the coastline, changing the course of the Dnieper. The ecological state of the Dnieper River is under serious threat. Only in the memories of the classics did the Dnieper remain “wide and mighty,” the press release states.
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