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By December 1, the occupying Crimean authorities want to introduce an accounting and control program for water losses on the peninsula.
In Russian-occupied Crimea, they want to involve law enforcement officials in investigating water shortages on the peninsula. This was announced on November 14 by the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Marat Khusnullin, reports TASS.
According to him, the key problem of water scarcity is theft. Khusnullin also noted that Crimeans deliberately break or damage metering devices, water their gardens: “Somewhere we don’t have enough water at home and someone who doesn’t have a meter pours as much water as we can.”
Therefore, according to him, it is necessary to introduce an accounting and control program for such losses, which should appear before December 1.
At the same time, Khussnullin noted that the nets themselves in some areas have 70% wear, which means that the water simply flows to the ground. He explained that losses are officially declared through the water utilities up to 50%.
Before the Russian annexation of Crimea, Ukraine provided 85% of the peninsula’s freshwater needs through the North Crimean Canal. After the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in the spring of 2014, Kiev stopped the supply of water to the peninsula. According to media reports, no alternative to the Dnieper water supply has yet been found in Crimea, except for 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 the annexed peninsula.
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 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 water supply to Crimea until the peninsula is vacated.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal said that the supply of fresh water from mainland Ukraine to annexed Crimea is only possible in the event of a humanitarian disaster on the peninsula.
In September, the occupiers announced that due to water shortages in occupied Simferopol, part of the city would receive water for three hours in the morning and in the evening.
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