Russia Is Draining Crimea’s Underground Water Reserves, Pushing the Peninsula Toward Desertification
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The water crisis in occupied Crimea is deepening, despite a temporary increase in reserves after heavier rainfall and snowmelt. The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine warns that increased extraction from underground sources is depleting aquifers, increasing water mineralization and creating a risk of land salinization. At the beginning of October, the average filling level of the peninsula’s reservoirs was about 45%. On October 9, reservoi…
Russia Is Draining Crimea’s Underground Water Reserves, Pushing the Peninsula Toward Desertification
Russia’s occupation policies are depleting Crimea’s water resources and heightening the threat of soil salinization and desertification, despite fuller reservoirs after seasonal precipitation. This was reported by the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense (HUR) on its official Telegram channel on November 12. HUR stated that water consumption on the peninsula continues to outpace replenishment, even though rainfall and s…
The Russian occupation administration is draining underground freshwater supplies in Crimea in an attempt to compensate for the shortage of reservoirs.
Russian occupation policy leads to large-scale depletion of water resources of Crimea. Despite the increase in reserves in reservoirs due to precipitation, water
Trying to cover the acute shortage of fresh water after the explosion of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power plant, Russian invaders are predatorily pumping out the underground springs of Crimea, which leads to soil salinization and desertification of the peninsula.
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