On November 11, Crimean gauleiter Sergei Aksyonov suddenly admitted that “the problem of water supply is acute for twenty settlements in the Belogorsk district”, for which purpose in 2025 collaborators promise to “fruitfully use” funds for “installation of a water treatment plant”, “repair and construction of networks, installation of water towers” and “drilling wells” in the villages of Vishenne (Mushash), Novozhilovka (Besharan-Otar) and Turgeneve.
Aksyonov also promised to build a water pipeline from the Belogorsk reservoir to Alushta’s Privetne (Uskut).
This “water supply optimism” actually reflects the previous occupiers’ adventurism, in the context of their construction in 2021 of wells, pumping stations and the Beshterek-Zuya water pipeline, which was supposed to supply Simferopol with “20,000 cubic meters of artesian water daily” from the underground water layers of the Zuya and Beshterek river valleys.
In 2021, our Association consistently exposed the supply of “Siemens” and “Grundfos” industrial pumps for this environmentally reckless project.
We stated that the pumping of underground water horizons by the pumping station entailed significant negative consequences for the residents of the Zuya Valley, and also destroyed the unique riverine ecosystem.
ARC has contacted German law enforcement agencies, “Siemens” headquarters in Munich, the Austrian company “Siemens”, its subsidiary in Kyiv, and so on. It is now clear that the disastrous environmental and social consequences of this project were not long in coming: the springs in this area are drying up, and the underground waters are disappearing.
