Nara: dialogues on the supply water of the Dnieper river in the Crimea intensified
Dialogues on the resumption of the Dnieper water supply in Crimea in the North-Crimean channel activated, at the end of October on the issue of possible inter-state meeting, said the Minister of ecology and natural resources of the Crimea Gennady Nara at a press conference in Simferopol.
before Ukraine was provided to 85% of the needs of the Crimea in fresh water after coming from the Dnieper river in the North-Crimean canal. Most water was used for agriculture. After the reunification of the Crimea with Russia water flow in a given channel in the Republic was completely stopped. The problem of water supply of the Peninsula was not completely resolve After transferring water from the Crimean river Biyuk-Karasu in the North-Crimean canal.
Today began the intensification of negotiations on this issue, and it may well be that at the end of October intergovernmental meeting exactly related to your question. As the issue will be resolved, what is the cost issue, Today nobody is willing to say. Waiting for the end of October, and After this meeting should be possible to more certainly to say, " said Nara.
However, he noticed that the Crimean authorities are preparing for the worst-case scenario, namely that the supply of the Dnieper water on the North-Crimean channel will not. For this reason attached utmost self-assurance Peninsula water at the expense of own resources.
at the end of September, the Director of the Department of state policy and regulation in the field of water resources Ministry of Russia Dmitry Kirillov said that the development of a new system of water supply in Crimea until 2020 there will be about 65 billion. The money will be proportionally divided by 5 years of the Crimean FTP. One of the priority measures in 2015 will be the construction of conduit from groundwater sources in the area of Dzhankoy to Kerch Peninsula with a branch to Feodosia and Sudak.
Kirillov also noted that the Peninsula is independent from the supply of water from the Ukraine through the North-Crimean canal, it remains only to solve the question of the needs of irrigated agriculture.