Power: Crimea for the holiday season is fully provided with drinking water
Crimea in the holiday season will be fully provided with drinking water and will cover all needs of local residents and visitors, said the head of the State Department of water resources and land reclamation of Crimea Igor Weil.
first of Ukraine provided to 85% of the needs of the Crimea in fresh water through coming from the Dnieper North-Crimean canal. The majority of water was used for agriculture. After the reunification of the Crimea with Russia to supply water under the canal to the Republic was completely stopped. Not all the problem water managed to solve it After transferring water from the Crimean river Biyuk-Karasu in the North-Crimean canal, as well as the drilling of new wells.
at the end of March, the Minister of natural resources and environment Minister Sergei Donskoi said that the support of the Crimea water are made by 79%.
"in the whole region of the Republic of Crimea holiday season provided with water by 100%," said Weil at the meeting of the Presidium of the Crimean state Council.
according to his statement, the situation in the most troubled regions from a position of shortage of drinking water is under control. So, Feodosia-Sudak region with a population of 120 thousand people has accumulation until July, Kerch with a population of 159 thousand people until August, Lenin territory with a population of 60 thousand people - in November, the village Shelkino with a population of about 12 thousand in July.
"These savings, they have continuously replenished, because working pump system and pump water," said Weil. He said that In the current year is expected to file about 17 million cubic meters for irrigation fifteen thousand hectares of agricultural land in the 1st phase of the greenhouses and gardens.