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In the Izobilnenskoye Reservoir, located in the south of occupied Crimea, a small amount of water remains, which will only last until December.
As of September 23, restrictive measures for water supply are being introduced in Alushta, Partenit and Maliy Mayak on the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula. This was announced by the head of the Alushta occupation administration, Galina Ogneva, on her Facebook page.
According to her, from 23:00 to 5:00, the pressure in the water supply system of these settlements will be reduced.
“A small volume remains in the Izobilnenskoye reservoir, which will only last until December,” Ogneva wrote, explaining the reasons for the decision.
The official stressed that the pressure reduction is a temporary measure and asked residents to save water.
Ukraine supplied through the Crimean North Canal up to 85% of Crimea’s fresh water needs. After the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in the spring of 2014, Kiev stopped supplying the peninsula with water. In April 2017, the Crimean authorities assured that they had managed to completely overcome this problem, but, as experts told the Krym.Realii newspaper, 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 ARC Boris Babin said that the invaders had offered bribes to restore the water supply to Crimea.
In September, Sergei Shevchenko, director of the Northern Crimean Canal, said that it was technically impossible to supply water from mainland Ukraine to Crimea.
director Budget Committee of Verkhovna Rada, People’s Deputy of the “Servant of the People” Yuri Aristov told reporters of the program “Schema” (“Radio Svoboda”), aired on January 30, 2020, which The Ukrainian authorities were considering the idea of selling water to Crimea. The representative of the President of Ukraine in Crimea, Anton Korinevich, said in response that Ukraine does not intend to resume supplying water to Crimea until the peninsula is vacated.
On August 7, Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denis Shmygal said that the supply of fresh water from the mainland of Ukraine to the annexed Crimea is possible only in the event of a humanitarian disaster on the peninsula.
August 25th Leonid Kravchuk, head of the Ukrainian delegation to the trilateral contact group on a peaceful solution to the situation in Donbass, said Ukraine could resume supplying water to Crimea. if there is a humanitarian disaster.
On August 26, Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Defense and Security Council, said there was no reason for a humanitarian disaster in Russian-occupied Crimea due to the alleged lack of water.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky’s representative in Crimea Anton Korinevich noted that water will not be supplied to Crimea until the peninsula is completely unoccupied.
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