Ukraine has three times cut water supply to Crimea

The supply of Dnieper water to the Crimea in the North Krymsky Canal was reduced by about three times by decision of Kyiv. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the statement of the First Deputy Prime Minister of Crimea Rustam Temirgaliev.

“With a norm of about 50 cubic meters per second, about 16 cubic meters per second are now going on, and then due to the fact that we found a technical solution that does not allow them to completely block this water,” Temirgaliev told reporters.

The first deputy prime minister of Crimea also said that, according to his data, the structure regulating the receipt of Dnieper water to the North Crimean Canal reduced supplies at the request of the deputy head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Andrei Senchenko.

According to the Minister of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation Sergey Donskoy, almost 80% of the water supply of Crimea occurs mainly due to the North Crimean Canal, which flows both through the territory of Ukraine and the territory of the Crimea.

On March 31, during a visit to the Simferopol reservoir Donskoy, he informed reporters that the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation will develop a program of alternative water supply to Crimea by the end of the year, including the possibility of building a pipeline from the Kuban.