Recently, the occupiers held another “calming event” regarding water supply, during which the criminal “deputy chairman of the state committee for water management and land reclamation” Roman Zakharov spoke “at a state council committee meeting” about how “everything is fine with the water supply in Crimea.”
Two notable semi-admissions are worth noting from the stream of optimism expressed: according to Zakharov, in 2024, “the total water withdrawal by public utilities amounted to 237 million cubic meters, while only 116 million cubic meters were transferred to consumers for use, meaning losses amounted to 120.3 million cubic meters.”
Thus, the occupiers are losing at least half of their water in dilapidated water supply systems, which has long been an open secret for experts. A more interesting statement by Zakharov concerned the “labor feat” of “supplying water to the Tavrida.ART festival cluster, with a concentration of hundreds of thousands of people.”
This propaganda show, staged in Eastern Crimea as a “priority water supply facility,” led, according to Zakharov, to the arrival of “specialists from Moscow, as issues had to be addressed radically: they prepared and launched one pumping station after another to pump water from two natural reservoirs of natural runoff,” Belogorsk and Taygan ones.
It’s worth noting that, by a “strange coincidence,” it was precisely in the Tavrida.ART region, namely Feodosia and Sudak, that the population suffered the most from the lack of water, which the occupiers vaguely explained as some kind of “repair work.”
But the most tragicomic stories were those of the fake “deputy minister of ecology and natural resources,” Olga Dyachenko, about the “fight against illegal discharge.”
She claimed that “calculating the damage and punishing the culprits” was allegedly “impossible,” since “to determine the damage to a water body, it is necessary to take water samples several times over three weeks,” and during this period, any contamination, to put it mildly, disappears, and therefore “there is no damage.”
And collaborators from the “ministry” allegedly “cannot determine” either “who installs the pipe through which the discharge occurs”, “since it runs underground.”
It’s worth noting that these “underground secrets” actually pose no obstacle to collaborators in the process of “minor fraud” against the companies they’ve uncovered that are conducting “illegal discharges.”
