On August 6, the criminal “head of the council of ministers” of the occupiers, Yuriy Gotsanyuk, stated that allegedly due to high air temperature, “the contents of the acid storage tank of the Titan plant in Armyansk are significantly heated, which contributes to the intensive evaporation of chemicals.”
Allegedly, the occupiers dump about 80 thousand cubic meters of fresh water and about 1.2 tons of lime suspension into the storage tank daily to minimize evaporation. Despite all the assurances about “emissions within the norm,” it is obvious that the situation is force majeure.
Let us recall that until 2014, “Titan” was supplied with fresh water for storage tanks and similar large expenses by the North Crimean Canal, and for technological needs in clean water, the plant pumped it from wells located near Perekop in the Kherson region.
After blocking the canal and the wells, the occupiers did not stop the production of products at the plant, including dual-use products; artesian water for the enterprise was diverted in reverse from Crimea along the same canal bed, and new wells were drilled.
After the Kakhovka hydroelectric power Station’s Dam was blown up by Russian troops in 2023, despite the obvious danger from the further operation of the plant, its output continued to expand, including, probably, producing explosives at the plant.
A simple calculation shows that only in one hot month, and only to prevent it from drying out, the aggressor will dump, if we believe the figure given by Gotsanyuk, at least 2 million cubic meters, and the plant itself consumes comparable volumes.
At the same time, for example, the entire volume of water in the Crimean reservoirs of natural runoff now amounts to about 100 million cubic meters, and just for the uninterrupted water supply of the “capital” Simferopol, in 2025, collaborators have already pumped out 10 million cubic meters of artesian water.
