Shoaling of the Crimean reservoirs this year can lead to interruptions in providing the inhabitants of the peninsula with drinking water. In December, most of the reservoirs in the eastern part of the republic were filled from a quarter to a third, warned in the Center for Monitoring and Forecasting Emergencies of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia. The Crimean authorities deny the existence of a problem. Experts rather agree with the latter. After the closure of the North-Crimean Canal, along which water was delivered to the peninsula from the Dnieper, the republic actually faced a water deficit. However, by the present moment the problem has already been solved, according to the "Free Press". Over the past three years, deep-sea wells have been drilled all over the Crimea, from which soldiers are pulling pipelines to populated areas. A few days ago, the head of the Crimea, Sergei Aksenov said that the development of a unified scheme for water supply and water disposal on the peninsula. "The total volume of filling the tankable drinking water reservoirs is sufficient for guaranteed water supply in the eastern part of the Crimea. All settlements of the republic are provided with drinking water. There is no shortage, and there will not be any, "the head of the republic said, recognizing, however, that the quality of water in some regions does not meet sanitary standards. Specialists, hydrogeologists say that the drought does not threaten the peninsula. Reservoirs each year are deprived of a significant part of their reserves, but after the spring melting of the snow in the mountains they fill to the brim. This has always been the case, and the closure of the channel by the decision of the Ukrainian authorities did not affect this situation in any way. According to experts, the Crimea will be enough for the coming years of water from reservoirs and underground wells. In the implementation of risky and extremely costly projects - such as running a water pipe from the Kuban or building expensive desalination plants (their cost is estimated at 50 billion rubles) - there is no need. In winter and autumn, the water from the mountains flows, and it is enough to assemble it into a mini-storage facility to more than provide the surrounding communities with life-giving moisture for a year ahead. Similar projects are slowly but surely developing. Not so long ago, the authorities of the Crimea reported that they "plan to build a water intake on the Salgir River, whose water will be used for irrigation of 2.5 thousand.

ha of agricultural land ". There is an opinion that local officials are extremely reluctant to undertake projects of this kind, because they are too cheap - only a few million rubles. Accordingly, and kickbacks are minimal. Where it is more promising to demand from the federal center for the construction of an irrigation plant for 50 billion. To solve the problem of water supply of the peninsula, private capital is also connected. In the spring of 2015. one of the local agroholdings has built a unique storage pond with a geomembrane that holds 100 thousand. cubic meters of water.

The moisture collected in this way, which was previously simply discharged into the sea and rivers, now travels through the pipes of drip irrigation to apple orchards. It is noteworthy that such decisions have been applied in the Crimea since the pre-revolutionary times. But over the past three decades, the system has fallen into decay. In the directory of surface water bodies of the Crimea there are 129 artificial ponds-reservoirs, but of them at best a third. The new tanks can be counted on the fingers of one hand.