A WATER DISASTER IN CRIMEA - THE BELOGORSK RESERVOIR HAS DRIED UP

The Russian occupiers have caused a natural disaster in Crimea. The Belogorsk Reservoir, which is located in the valley of the Biyuk-Karasu river and provides irrigation of nearby lands, has been utterly dried. The reservoir served as a source of replenishment of the North Crimean channel and used for water supply in the cities and towns in the southeast of the peninsula.

In the spring of 2014 the "Russian world" zealots had started to capture the peninsula's important facilities and the pump station of the North Crimean Channel was one of them. The Kremlin-backed self-proclaimed authorities stated then that "Crimea will do without Junta's water," ensuring locals that water supply in the peninsula will be provided by Russia from the Krasnodar region. Hoping that the reservoir will be replenished by rainwater, local farmers have been extracting water from underground sources during last two years. However, the reservoir has dried out and now there is just the river bed because of lack of rains.

Now the occupied peninsula is on the brink of a water disaster. And if then, in far 1963, opening of the North-Crimean channel has literally brought new life in the barren Crimea, now the Kremlin's globalist ambitions may lead to irreparable consequences.