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The Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Marat Khusnullin said that as a result of geological exploration in Crimea, a new source of fresh water was discovered.
A source of fresh water was found near Sevastopol in Russian-occupied Crimea. This was announced on December 19 by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Marat Khusnullin, writes TASS.
According to him, the water was found after a geological exploration.
Khusnullin pointed out that the construction of a water intake on the Belbek river will be completed in the spring of 2021. After its commissioning, it will be possible to supply Sevastopol with 50 thousand m³ of fresh water per day.
Drilling of wells for water production in Sevastopol will allow the city to supply another 10,000 m³ of fresh water, according to the report.
Ukraine supplied through the Crimean North 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 supply of water to the peninsula. In April 2017, the Crimean authorities assured that they had managed to completely overcome this problem, but, as experts told the publication Krym.Realii, this information does not correspond to reality. According to media reports, no alternative to the Dnieper’s 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 Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Boris Babin, said that the invaders had offered bribes to restore the water supply to Crimea.
In September, Sergei Shevchenko, head of the Northern Crimean Canal, said it was technically impossible to supply water from mainland Ukraine to Crimea.
The chairman of the Budget Committee of the Verkhovna Rada, Servant of the People’s MP Yuri Aristov, told reporters on the Scheme (Radio Svoboda) program, broadcast on January 30, 2020, that the Ukrainian authorities were considering the idea to sell 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.
Ukrainian 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.
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