The supply of water in the Simferopol reservoir will provide the main city of the Crimea with water for 100 days. As informed on Friday to journalists the head of the region Sergey Aksenov, weather conditions are conducive to the normalization of the situation with water supply.
This year’s Simferopol because of the hot and dry weather suffers from a lack of water. In other localities, according to Aksenov, the shortage of water there.
"We informed talking about the fact that we have a supply of water in the Simferopol reservoir for 100 days, today is also 100 days. Yet nothing changes, move forward, everything will be fine. Perhaps there will be some modes with regards to the city of Simferopol, but until we see what the weather situation contributes to the fact that the situation normalizes" – he told, answering a question of journalists on possibility of introduction of emergency mode due to the lack of water in Simferopol.
Aksenov also noted that repair of system of water supply of Simferopol will also allow you to keep the volume of water.
"Plus the issues associated with the repair of the water supply system of the city of Simferopol, will allow to save about 7-8 million cubic meters of water in this case. The cost of this repair will be more than 400 million rubles, the project documentation is already ordered, so the process is", – said the head of the region.
Simferopol consumes daily 160 thousand cubic meters of water, a large part of this amount already was able to replace from other sources. Reserves in three reservoirs, providing the city will last for 110 days. All in all, a year for domestic needs in the country consumed about 500 million cubic meters of water.
Problems of water supply and irrigation in the Crimea exist in 2014, when Ukraine unilaterally cut off the water from the Kherson region, were coming through the North-Crimean channel, which provide up to 90% of the Peninsula. Now the residents and businesses of the region receives water from local sources. The current year has been very dry, and the question of possible water scarcity is on the agenda.
