Rivers are massively drying up in Crimea

Most rivers on the southern coast of occupied Crimea have dried up or become "slow-moving streams."

According to Krym.Realii,<b> </b>, this year's dry weather has led to the shallowing of the rivers of the Azov Sea basin, as well as massive drying of the rivers of the Black Sea basin.

"Most of the rivers in the South Coast have either dried up or turned into sluggish streams. Currently, Crimea is just entering the dry period, which is expected to peak in 2027, and the situation with water resources is already of great concern," the media noted.

At the same time, the authorities' cheerful reports about the massive development of the Crimean peninsula do not look happy in the eyes of Crimeans, because no one gives a clear answer as to where to get water for their needs, which means that it simply does not exist.

At the same time, since the beginning of the high holiday season, urban runoff on the beaches of Crimea has become more abundant than the rivers in this area of the peninsula.

Earlier, Intent said that the current volume of water in the reservoirs of Crimea is 126 million cubic meters. This is about 50% of their maximum capacity. Last year, this figure was about 75%. Such rates of water depletion indicate the beginning of a low-water period<i>.</i>

Last year, the reserves of the Crimean reservoirs decreased by 6.5% per month. Thus, the total water reserves in the Crimean reservoirs on the rivers at the beginning of May amounted to just over 190 million cubic meters, which is about 6.5% lower than the level at the beginning of April.

After the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station dam was blown up by the Rashids, water stopped flowing into the North Crimean Canal. The Kakhovka Reservoir in Kherson Oblast had been supplying Crimea with Dnipro water for more than half a century. Water was taken from it into the North Crimean Canal using engineering structures built there shortly after the Kakhovka HPP.

It was also said that heavy winter precipitation made it possible to fill not only the Belogorskoye but also the adjacent Taiganskoye reservoir in Crimea. Now the situation has changed rapidly. The Belogorskoye reservoir is rapidly losing water again.

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