The water situation in Crimea remains alarming
The precipitation that has fallen in Crimea since early January has not significantly improved the situation with the filling of the peninsula's reservoirs. Vladimir Bazhenov, head of the state unitary enterprise "Water of Crimea," stated this at a meeting of the republic's Council of Ministers, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“What we expected, some influxes from snow melting in the mountains, unfortunately, did not happen. In all the reservoirs of Crimea, which are fed by the surface runoff of the main ridge of the Crimean Mountains, the flows are so minimal that they can practically not be taken into account,” Bazhenov said.
In turn, the head of the republic Sergei Aksenov called to “prepare for the worst”: “We are counting on the worst situation for now, there are no optimistic scenarios, the opinions of forecasters are divided, no one can say with certainty what will happen. Therefore, you and I assume that the situation will not change; on the contrary, we must assume that it will change for the worse. This is what we proceed from.”
The situation is somewhat better for residents of the Yalta region of the South Coast. There are two months of reserves left in the reservoirs. Melting snow made it possible to remove most of the restrictions on the water supply schedule, said Yalta Administration Head Yanina Pavlenko.
“As of today, 2 million 089 thousand cubic meters is the generally useful volume of water that we have from the main source, from our reservoirs. When calculating, the average rise of water today is 36 thousand 910 cubic meters of useful volume from reservoirs, according to calculations, which remains for two months.
However, it should be noted that today we have large inflows from our additional sources. Khasta-Bash gives us 40 thousand cubic meters on average, Uch-Khosh four thousand, Massandra Falls five thousand...
We supply about 50 thousand cubic meters from additional sources. According to the water utility, today 90% of Yalta residents receive water almost around the clock. This situation will persist as long as inflows and additional sources give us,” Pavlenko said.
The water situation in Crimea remains alarming.