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The “head” of the administration of occupied Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, said that only desalination would give a “guaranteed result” to solve the problem with fresh water in the peninsula.
The construction of a seawater desalination system in Yalta will cost 3 billion rubles. (about $ 40.8 million). This was stated by the “head” of the Crimean occupation administration, Sergei Aksenov, in a briefing with Russia’s Economic Development Minister Maxim Reshetnikov, Interfax reported.
According to Aksenov, “there are sources of funding.” Now they are preparing a feasibility study for the project, said the “boss” of Crimea.
He stressed that only desalination will give a “guaranteed result” to solve the problem with fresh water in the peninsula.
Ukraine supplied through the Northern Crimean Canal up to 85% of Crimea’s freshwater needs. After the occupation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in the spring of 2014, Kiev stopped the water supply to the peninsula… In April 2017, the Crimean authorities assured that managed to completely overcome this problem, but, as the experts informed the publication “Crimea. Realities”, this information is not true. According to media reports, no alternative to the Dnieper water supply has yet been found in Crimea, except large-scale pumping of groundwater.
In June 2019, the former permanent representative of the President of Ukraine to the ARC Boris Babin said that the invaders had offered bribes to restore the water supply to Crimea.
In September, Sergei Shevchenko, head of the Crimean North Canal, said it was technically impossible to supply water from mainland Ukraine to Crimea.
The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Budget Committee, Servant of the People’s Deputy Yuriy Aristov, told reporters on the Scheme (Radio Svoboda) program, broadcast on January 30, 2020, that the Ukrainian authorities were considering the idea of selling water. to Crimea. The representative of the President of Ukraine in Crimea, Anton Korinevich, responded by saying that Ukraine does not intend to resume supplying water to Crimea until the peninsula is vacated.
Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denis Shmygal said that the supply of fresh water from mainland Ukraine to occupied Crimea is only possible in the event of a humanitarian disaster on the peninsula.
On December 30, Aksenov announced that desalination of water would be possible in at least a few years.
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