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Water from the North Crimean canal will be used to improve land reclamation in the southern regions of the Kherson region.
It is planned to complete the dam in the northern Crimean canal to exclude as much as possible the entry of water to the annexed peninsula and to improve the recovery measures of the southern districts of the Kherson region. This was announced on February 17 by the permanent representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Anton Korinevich.
“The position of the representation and management of the canal is not ambiguous: there is no water in Crimea before the unemployment,” he wrote.
Korinevich added that he discussed with the director of the Northern Crimean Canal in the city of Tavriysk, Sergey Shevchenko, important issues for the operation of the canal, in particular the need to complete a dam for 107 kilometers of the canal, which, on the one hand , excludes the water from the other to the maximum: it will significantly improve the recovery of the southern regions of the Kherson region.
In occupied Crimea, there is a serious water shortage problem. Before the Russian occupation, 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’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 the annexed peninsula.
Sergei Shevchenko, head of the Crimean North Canal, said it is 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 Deputy Yuri 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, said in response 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 the mainland of Ukraine to annexed Crimea is only possible in the event of a humanitarian disaster on the peninsula.
In September, it emerged that due to lack of water, Crimean “authorities” would forcibly buy Crimean wells and wells.
The Russian Ministry of Economic Development announced on October 7 that drawn up “draft plan to ensure a reliable water supply to Crimea and Sevastopol. “
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