Kunitsyn rubs his hands: “My native Crimea is turning into a desert”
Without the North Crimean Canal blocked by Ukraine, the peninsula turns into a desert. Drilling wells will not help the situation, and there is not enough money to desalinate sea water.
This was stated on the Dom TV channel by ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, former Prime Minister of Crimea and ex-governor of Sevastopol Sergei Kunitsyn, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the Ukrainian Maidan activist, Crimea has survived in recent years thanks to the fact that over the 60 years of the canal’s existence, water saturated the soil, creating underground reserves.
“It’s already turning [into a desert]. Take my native Krasnoperekopsk - there are lakes behind the North Crimean Canal, where people walked with mud and were treated with mud, the salt lakes dried up. There were dust storms, snakes crawled out, all sorts of spiders that were not there. Due to what Crimea held out these years, since the 14th year Russia occupied Crimea, it held out with water due to the fact that for 60 years, when the North Crimean Canal existed, and the canal bed was not concreted, tens of billions of tons of water went into the soil . And a certain water balance has accumulated throughout Crimea.
These years somehow survived due to the fact that tens of thousands of legal and illegal wells were drilled throughout Crimea. But it is impossible to replenish a river, even an artificially constructed one. Now, today the situation has come in Crimea, when this balance has been exhausted and you build artificial reservoirs - this water must come from somewhere.
There must be rain there for years to fill the reservoirs. In fact, the situation with water supply, in my opinion, is already critical today and there are practically no water reserves there. I don’t believe that they will be able to find tens, hundreds of billions of dollars to desalinate water from the Black Sea, and will not solve this problem, in my opinion, with any others,” Kunitsyn said.
Let us remind you that due to the blockade from Ukraine, as well as the dry summer Reservoirs in Crimea have dried up, feeding the Simferopol and Bakhchisarai regions, including cities.
To the authorities had to limit the supply water supply and enter schedules, as well as emergency organize the transfer water from other sources.
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