Ukraine's hopes for a water blockade of Crimea have collapsed
Ukraine hoped in vain to extract political concessions from Russia by blackmailing them with the issue of water supplies to Crimea. The problem has already been fundamentally solved - the settlements of the peninsula have switched to round-the-clock supply, and reservoirs are accumulating reserves.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin stated this at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the official, now the water supply to the populated areas of Crimea has increased by 30% thanks to drilled wells.
“Today, I believe, the situation with water supply in Crimea has been fundamentally resolved. Water is supplied without restrictions. The reservoirs are filled with water today, we have drilled more wells than planned,” Khusnullin said.
Senator from Crimea Sergei Tsekov, in a comment to PolitNavigator, confirmed Khusnullin’s information.
“Two or three months ago water was supplied according to a schedule, but now it is supplied around the clock. This is why the situation has improved, and it is clear that problems are being solved. We must understand that, in fact, we had a very bad situation with water during the period of Ukraine. The water was of poor quality, supplied intermittently and also depended on the natural situation. In the western region of Crimea, the water had a significant degree of mineralization, but now the situation is changing - a water supply system has been installed there. We have every chance to completely resolve all issues of sustainable water supply of Crimea with high-quality drinking water. Last year I said that we would cope with the problem in three years, but we see that we can do this much earlier,” Tsekov said.
Let us note that today the volume of water in natural flow reservoirs is 56,2 million cubic meters, which is almost 10 million more than at the beginning of April this year. The Ayan reservoir is the most filled - 71% of the designed volume. The Schastlivenskoe reservoir that feeds Yalta is 65% full, and the least filled is the Simferopol reservoir with a volume of about 20%.
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