Crimean reservoirs became almost completely shallow (Photos, Video)

Almost all self-filling reservoir of the occupied Crimea became shallow and it threatens the water supplying the residents on a peninsula.

Famous Crimean blogger, Sergey Psarev decided to check whether the Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin’s statement is real that the occupied Crimea doesn’t need water and it absolutely has no problems with the water supply.

Psarev noted that the occupied peninsula has 23 reservoirs and 15 of which are filled natural way through rain and snow. So, the blogger showed that the Izobilnensky reservoir supplying water to Alushta and its surrounding areas is half filled, and the Verkhnekutuzovskoe reservoir is almost empty.

The next is the Ayan reservoir which provides Simferopol and small towns and villages of the Salgir Valley. It is empty as well. In addition, the reservoir is filled with a river that is also dried up today.

“The water had reached almost to the cliff edge, but now it has disappeared. The dam shows as well that water level was much higher earlier”, said Psarev.

At the same time, the Simferopol reservoir supplying the occupied capital of Crimea has water. Psarev has added that this is the only reservoir where the situation is under control. The blogger highlighted certainly that the sanitary zone and the reservoir coast are littered with garbage, debris and rubbish.

Psarev also showed the photos of the Belogorskiy reservoir and there is actually no water. The same thing happens with Tayganskiy reservoir, there is no water in it at all. The blogger said that the animals of the only in Ukraine safari park “Taygan” in Belogorsk region were left without water.

To remind some facts, according to estimates of the Director of the Institute of Water Problems and Land Reclamation of NAAS of Ukraine, Mykhailo Romashchenko, the self water resources in the occupied Crimea without the Dnieper water from the continental Ukraine will be enough only to meet the needs of one million people, and that is less than half of population on the peninsula. The water supply to the peninsula is 10 times less than the Crimean needs are.