Ukraine/Russia: Crimea Running out of Water Due to Annexation, Looks for Water Sources

Jul 28, 2020 | Oleg Sukhov, Kyiv Post
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The situation with water supply in Ukraine’s Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula is becoming more critical as the Russian occupation government is looking for new water sources. Before Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea in 2014, the peninsula received 85 percent of its water from the Ukrainian mainland through the North Crimean Canal. After the annexation Ukrainian authorities built a dam to cut off water supplies to Crimea.