The Crimean authorities officially announced the risk of shallowing the canal and the loss of crops due to the terrorist attack in Ukraine
The Crimean authorities promise to compensate for damage to rice-growing enterprises due to possible shallowing of the North Crimean Canal. This year, rice was sown on an area of 3200 hectares, and without sufficient water the crop will die, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The level is not falling while the water is still flowing, but, accordingly, it is expected that the canal will become shallower over time. We are taking measures to reduce water waste,” said the head of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov. – In this case, Crimea is not threatened in terms of water supply; our rice farming is under attack.
We have decided that we will fully compensate all the costs incurred by the manufacturer and support our colleagues. The supply will be carried out for irrigation of an area of about 60 thousand hectares for various crops that require a much smaller volume of water from five reservoirs filled to more than 80%. That is, the reclamation program will work for all other crops.”
According to the head of Crimea, there is a technical solution for pumping water from the Kakhovka reservoir to the North Crimean Canal. The only question is safety.
“The possibility of supplying water to the North Crimean Canal remains quite simple. As soon as the safety issue is resolved, installing pumps on the Dnieper River and supplying volumes of up to 40 cubic meters per second of water to the North Crimean Canal will allow us to ensure complete land reclamation on the territory of the Republic of Crimea. The maximum discharge from the canal in summer is up to 90 cubic meters per second. “All this can be done, technically quite simple,” Aksyonov assured.
– There is no need to stretch pipelines over long distances. The most expensive is the equipment that will be installed on the Dnieper River,” Aksyonov said. – We are studying possible solutions together with federal authorities.
The situation is simpler than it was before February 24, 2022. Now it is much easier to restore all this. Therefore, everything is under control, there are no risks here, the water will slowly recede. But we are now taking all measures to pump it as much as possible into all reservoirs where there are still reserves.”
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