Expert of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center Yevhen Khlobystov, in an interview with the Dom TV channel, said that Crimea could survive without Dnieper water, provided that the distribution of this water would be different than it is now.
“The situation with water has improved, as there was heavy rainfall and all reservoirs, more than 20 reservoirs in Crimea, have standard water content. This allows today to provide uninterrupted water for all water consumers”,- Khlobystov emphasized.
The expert added that the quality of this water is completely different, since the reservoirs have been empty for a long time and this state of the reservoirs has become the reason that today the water there has ceased to naturally purify itself.
“Today there are no problems and there were no problems for the military-industrial complex, for enterprises that served the military-industrial complex of Crimea. The shortage of water was experienced only by civilians, mostly living, for example, outside the city of Sevastopol. The city of Sevastopol has always been well supplied with water, precisely because the military elite and the top of law enforcement agencies live there – the FSB and others”,- he said.
The expert added that now there is a spontaneous increase in the population, there is a constant increase in the needs of the military-industrial complex, endless exercises are being carried out. Reducing water consumption in these segments would significantly improve the water supply of the general population, the civilian population.