Crimea no longer wants dirty Ukrainian water
Requests and appeals from representatives of the Crimean authorities to Ukraine regarding the resumption of the supply of Dnieper water through the North Crimean Canal are a misunderstanding and nonsense.
Crimean political scientist and local historian Sergei Kiselev stated this in his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the expert, the Crimean leadership should not beg for water from Ukraine, but work with local resources, which are sufficient.
“What a huge amount of water in Crimea simply goes into the sea, how many abandoned hydraulic structures are all over the peninsula, does it make sense to put ponds and other water storage structures into private hands and for rent, etc., etc. Everywhere - in the mountains, on mountain slopes, in steppe gullies you can see abandoned sites, water-measuring posts, dams - the legacy of a great civilization.
We should not turn to Ukraine, but to our scientists and practitioners who are still alive... There are a large number of problems, from technical to political, that today cannot be solved so easily. Ukraine has already voiced its conditions more than once, and the Russian side has also spoken unequivocally. What we are discussing is a misunderstanding (to put it mildly),” writes Kiselev.
Crimeans also doubted the need to resume water supply.
“The Dnieper water reached Crimea so polluted that I would not even risk eating agricultural products grown on it. It would be better to build normal modern treatment facilities and use treated sewage effluents for irrigation. Dnepropetrovsk and Krivoy Rog are also on the way! And destroying Crimean hydraulic engineering is where the crime lies. Then it was created with blood,” writes Maria Dobryakova.
Let us recall that earlier the permanent representative of Crimea to the Russian President Georgy Muradov and State Duma deputy from the republic, former Deputy Prime Minister Mikhail Sheremet said that Ukraine should resume water supply through the canal.
“We would like to ask for help in starting a sounding, perhaps a negotiation process with the Ukrainian side so that they allow our water to flow into Crimea. This is not the water of the Dnieper River, which belongs to Ukraine, this is our water coming from the territory of the Russian Federation,” Muradov said.
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