Today in Crimea there is no shortage of drinking water, and such problems are not expected in the future. This was stated by the Deputy Chairman of the State Council of the Republic Oedip Gafarov on Wednesday, August 1. According to him, currently in the region the volume of drinking water reserves is about 200 million cubic meters. "We have 23 reservoirs, eight of them are liquid, 15 on natural runoff. If we evaluate this farm, then we have about 200 million cubic meters of drinking water in stock. However, some this year even produce watering on an area of ??14-15 thousand hectares. ", - said on the air of the radio" Sputnik in the Crimea "Gafarov. He believes that this is a good figure considering the fact that the Kiev authorities blocked the North-Crimean channel in April 2014, as a result of which the Dnipro water ceased to flow to the peninsula, which provided 85% of the region's needs in it. "I worked for six years as the first deputy chairman of the State Committee for Water Resources of the Republic and can responsibly say that we will not have problems with drinking water supply," Gafarov stressed.. At the same time, he is convinced that it is necessary to create opportunities for collecting and storing water. After the Ukrainian demarche, the problem of water supply in the northern and eastern Crimea was decided by drilling new artesian wells and transferring water along the Biyuk-Karasu River and along the canal to the east of the peninsula. The central and southern regions of the Republic receive water from natural reservoirs. One of these days, experts from the Independent predicted the Crimea a catastrophe due to a large-scale drought. They assure that 70% of the green vegetation in the north of the peninsula has simply dried up.

"There is a crop if there is watering. On rains it is not necessary to count. Precipitation is extremely rare here. The water that is in the region in a small amount is suitable only for watering. You can not use it to a man. But to water it is very small, "- frightens Crimeans in an interview with" Facts "economist Yuri Smelyansky. In turn, July 19, the press service of Goskomvodkhoz of Crimea reported that the water in the reservoirs of the system of the North-Crimean Canal has been accumulated enough for the water supply of the peninsula in this and next year.

"For today in all regions of the republic the reserves of the water resource of the Crimea provide a full, 100%, consumption for the resort period. Three underground water intakes are used for stable water supply:.

Prosternn, Nezhinsky and Novogrigoryevsky, which give 126 thousand cubic meters of water to the system of the North Crimean Canal. This allows you to transport water to reservoirs that provide water supply to the eastern regions of the Crimea ", - quotes the agency" Kryminform ".