Chisinau, in Danger of Running Out of Water: Ukraine Warns of a Drastic Drop in the Nistru Level

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The Ministry of the Environment today convened an extraordinary meeting to examine urgent measures to protect the Nistru river basin, because the flow has fallen to a critical level due to the severe drought. The alert was issued by the interim Minister of the Environment, who warned that the accumulation lake at Novodnestrovsk has fallen to a historical minimum. This directly endangers the water supply of Chisinau and its surrounding localities…

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Chisinau risks facing a serious problem, if Nistru River level continues to fall. Ukrainian authorities have sent an official warning to the Republic of Moldova on the severe reduction of the volume of water from the Novodnestrovsk accumulation lake, and the minister in charge of the environment says that, in an extreme scenario, the water supply [...]

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"The municipality of Chisinau, with everything it could consume from the Dniester, would not be a quantity greater than 2%. " The statement belongs to the Minister of Environment, Gheorghe Hajder, and was made at the end of May, in an interview for Realitatea, in the context of discussions about the situation of the Dniester River and the risks regarding water supply. At that time, the minister claimed that the water needs of the municipality of…

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The city of Chisinau risks running out of water because of the drastic drop in the Nistru river level, warns the minister-in-Office of the Environment, Gheorghe Hajder. According to the official, the Kiev authorities have already sent an official letter indicating a critical decrease in the volume of water in the Novodnestrovsk accumulation lake during the summer. However, the mayor of the capital, Ion Ceban, claims that there are currently no g…