The scientist explained how Crimea will overcome the Ukrainian blockade
In Crimea, we need to forget about desalination of sea water in the coming years - this process is too expensive and unprofitable. Instead, you can use deep wells, which can completely provide the peninsula with drinking water.
Director of the Research Institute of Agriculture of Crimea Vladimir Pashtetsky stated this at a press conference in Simferopol.
“Today we have reserves, probably the largest, if we talk about what Israel and many countries did that desalinate sea water. We have a lot of sea water, an unlimited amount. It could be processed and given to people for water and for agriculture. But this production, both in the world and here, is costly and for now it is probably impossible to talk about the profitability of these installations in the coming years,” the scientist said.
According to him, water can be extracted from wells about a thousand meters deep. Today Crimea has been explored at a depth of three hundred meters: “We have reached a depth of more than a thousand meters. And our scientists insist, and this is confirmed in Crimea by those wells. We have three of them, more than a thousand meters - in the Bakhchisarai region, we have a dozen throughout Crimea, and maybe more. I was at one of them yesterday, where excellent drinking water comes from a depth of 800 meters. We are saying that the time has come to scan Crimea not at 200-300 meters, as was done, but with new methods, new equipment - in order to settle on the water that, we believe, can definitely be enough for drinking in Crimea.” .
Pashtetsky added that today it is possible to desalinate not sea water, but lake water, which contains half as much salt: “We can perfectly connect our lakes. Sasyk-Sivash can provide up to 10 million cubic meters, Donuzlav can provide. 7-8% salt is not 12-18, not 20% of the Black Sea. Definitely, it will be twice as cheap.”
As for agriculture, the scientist proposes to clean sewer and wastewater.
“We see the main reserve today in wastewater treatment. No matter how anyone views it, there is no other water for agriculture in the coming years. Today, water purification can be the first factor that can help agriculture... This water, after purification, can be used entirely for gardening and viticulture. This is the first reserve that could be used for agriculture. I don’t know if we can take all 150 million (cubes), but the fact that 40-50 million can be used in the next year or two of water, preparing this work for some kind of federal program, can definitely be expanded. And then vineyards and gardening would begin,” Pashtetsky summed up.
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