Corruption Cycle Cycle Dehydration. The story of how Crimea was left without water Ekaterina Reznikova, June 3, 2020 Problems with the water supply of Crimea were known to Soviet citizens who went to the peninsula to rest every year. After the annexation of Crimea, Russia promised to solve the eternal problem, but in the summer of 2020, six years after the referendum on the entry into the Russian Federation, the peninsula risks remaining without water at all.