By the beginning of next week, the Crimean authorities plan to receive reports from resort regions with forecasts of work for the summer, "based on the worst situation with water".
“We understand that the analysis of water will increase. Today there should be a simple mathematical model based on the worst situation. Perhaps the schedule will be quite unpleasant, nevertheless, it should allow us to spend the holiday season, hold out, let people earn money", - Interfax quotes the statement of the head of Crimea Sergei Aksenov, made during a meeting of the headquarters on March 9 in Simferopol.
According to forecasters, even if heavy rains take place in Crimea, they will not be able to compensate for the consequences of the severe drought that has continued on the peninsula for the third year in a row.
"Precipitation, if there is, then the water, taking into account the drought that was, will go into the soil, respectively, we will not get it in the reservoirs", - said the head of the region.
According to Aksenov, during the holiday season, residents and guests of the peninsula will obviously have to be content with only those water supplies that are available today.
Earlier on the Web there were rumors that on the eve of the holiday season, some sanatoriums and hotels in Yalta began to receive "excess" water on a special schedule, which is set for them separately. However, the authorities of the peninsula denied this information, stressing that the schedule for water cut-offs is the same for all consumers.
A severe drought in Crimea began in 2019, and experts believe that it will continue this season. Due to the consequences of low water, the reservoirs of the peninsula became shallow, and the authorities had to impose restrictions on the supply of water to the population.
Since the end of August 2020, restrictions have been introduced in Simferopol and the nearest and 39 settlements. Water is supplied to residents for an average of six hours a day. From mid-December and from the end of February, similar restrictions were introduced in the resort Yalta and Alushta.
To solve the water crisis in Crimea, the federal authorities have adopted a state program that includes pipe repair, drilling artesian wells and the construction of seawater desalination stations. The total funding for the program is almost 50 billion rubles.