The first ten days of May on the occupied peninsula were “marked” by another round of statements about the “filling of reservoirs”, performed by the permanent “head of the department” of the so-called “Institute of biochemical technologies, ecology and pharmacy” Ilya Nikolenko.
This figure stated that “thanks to weather anomalies” in Crimea in April the filling volume of reservoirs of natural runoff increased by 15 million cubic meters and today is about 55%.
By “anomalies” they meant snowfall, accompanied by high temperatures and “the difference in temperature values during the day and at night”.
However, on April 19, the “director” of the infamous “Water Technologies” structure, Anatoly Kopachevsky, stated on the air of the occupiers’ propaganda that “the volume of water in the Crimean reservoirs by mid-April is only 48% of the possible capacity”, which is “almost half as much compared to the same period last year”, and therefore it is obvious that the water crisis has not gone away.
The same Kopachevsky is now forced to state that all potential water reserves have drained from the mountains into the reservoirs, because “if they were still there, we would continue to observe these inflows. But we do not observe them. This means that all the snow reserves have drained”.
Considering that the “average filling value” of the Crimean reservoirs at the beginning of May is usually 75%, it is obvious that 2025 on the peninsula will be guaranteed to be accompanied by another “water crisis”.
In this regard, the semi-admission of the same Kopachevsky is also noteworthy that “since the last drought”, that is, in the “high-water” years of 2022-2024, “the underground water intakes of Western Crimea, which were additionally developed, are no longer turned off, and now the volumes of water intake from them have been increased.”
Thus, the predatory “water management” of the aggressor continues to inevitably lead the long-suffering peninsula to another environmental disaster, regardless of the “weather forecasts” and the amount of precipitation.
