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We are talking about the Kacha, Alma, Chernaya, Belbek, Tonas rivers, which have been dehydrated due to the lack of rainfall during the last three months.
“RIA Novosti”
Five rivers that provide fresh water run dry in Russia-annexed Crimea drinking water tanks in peninsula. This is reported by the Crimean Hydrometeorological Department controlled by the occupation authorities.
Since July 26, the Kacha river near the town of Suvorovo dried up, on August 3 – the Alma river is higher than the Partizansky reservoir, on August 13 – the Chernaya river is higher than the Chernorechensky reservoir, the August 18 – the Belbek river near the Fruktovoe village. On August 29, for the first time in the history of hydrometeorological observations, the Tonas River, which is the right tributary of the Biyuk-Karasu River, dehydrated. The flow of water to the Partizanskoye and Chernorechenskoye reservoirs stopped, and to the rest it was negligible.
The authorities of occupied Crimea see the reason for the drying up of the rivers in the lack of rainfall, which in the last month of summer, as in the previous two, was brief, stormy and exclusively local.
We remind you that in August chaptersand Delegation of Ukraine to the Trilateral Contact Group on Donbass Leonid Kravchuk He said Ukraine could resume supplying water to Crimea if it faces a humanitarian disaster. However, no attempt can be made to supply water to industrial and military facilities located on the peninsula.
Recall that Ukraine provided up to 85% of Crimea’s freshwater needs through the northern Crimean canal, which connects the main Dnieper canal with the peninsula. After Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, the water supply to the ARC was stopped.
In the summer of 2018, Crimea suffered a severe drought. Then one of the largest rivers on the peninsula, Biyuk-Karasu, dried up. Its bed has completely dried up near the village of Karasevka on the Belogorsk reservoir.
Water reserves in Crimea are replenished from natural runoff reservoirs and underground sources. According to environmentalists, the regular use of water from underground sources has caused the salinization of the soil in the peninsula.
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