Crimean authorities announced the resumption of negotiations on the supply of water from the Ukraine
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. 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, quoted by RIA " Novosti ". 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. Recall, Ukraine was provided to 85% of the needs of the Crimea in fresh water through the North-Crimean canal, connecting the main channel of the Dnipro Peninsula. However, after the annexation of Crimea to Russia in the Republic was discontinued water supply in the North-Crimean canal. The problem of water supply in Crimea was not completely resolve after transferring water from the Crimean river Biyuk-Karasu in the North-Crimean canal. Currently we are drilling wells, the construction of new pipelines. Russia's natural resources Ministry has developed a plan to maintain uninterrupted water supply of the Republic of Crimea, including more than 80 events with the terms of implementation until 2017.