Ukrainians urged to save water

State water resources Agency of Ukraine agitating Residents apply sparingly water resources, as due to the prolonged heat and lack of rain the water sector of the country and provision of water to residents of the complicated.
Due to the lack of precipitation and high air temperature, the water level in most rivers during the summer period greatly reduced. Reuters captures Almost all the rivers low water levels for long-term observation period, notified on the Internet representation offices.
the Agency stressed that in the near future in Ukraine is expected to further decrease water availability in places before reaching signs of oligohydramnios, and in some areas small rivers complete lack of flow. Under similar conditions, complicated operation of water sector of Ukraine and provide water to residents, according to a report. Remember, the Minister of energy and coal industry of Ukraine Volodymyr demchyshyn last week said that the supply of electric energy from Russia has allowed Ukraine to pass the peak loads on the electricity of the country in connection with the established hot weather. According to his statement, in the summer of this year due to the steady hot weather was recorded the biggest since the heating season load on the mains. In addition, during this period, Ukraine has experienced problems with the generation of electricity, since a number of thermal power plants (TPP) were stopped for repairs or were damaged as a result of shelling in the area of special operations in the Donbass. However, the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk gave advice to the population to spend energy modernization: he tried to convince the population to insulate the house, to change the boilers and to make grants to reduce the consumption of gas, electricity and fuel. The Ukrainian government also proposed to reduce the minimum allowable temperature in the apartments with the current plus 18 to plus 16 degrees. The official representative of the Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, explaining the appeal of Yatsenyuk to the citizens to save gas and insulating the home, ironically said that the Ukrainians were lucky that their Government until not introduced payment for oxygen." Well that as long as oxygen free, and that in fact citizens appeared in the Paleolithic era to the present so imperfect, that to reduce the consumption of this gas is not collected. Although..." ? Zakharov stressed.


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