Crimea water issue must be decided as business

#politique #economie #Crimée #Ukraine

Ukraine spurns Russia’s accusations that it shut off water tap to Crimea
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/ukraine-spurns-russias-accusations-that-it-shut-off-water-tap-to-crimea-34

Russia’s Agriculture Minister Nikolay Fedorov announced on April 24 that Ukraine had blocked the North Crimean water channel, which is the main water supply source for the peninsula annexed by the Russian Federation. 

As a result, Crimea could lose crops on 120,000 hectares of land which requires irrigation, while the financial losses would reach $13.6 million that is quite a substantial sum for the region, said Fedorov.
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Ukraine’s Water Resources Agency denies the stoppage of the water supplies to Crimea through the North-Crimean channel. “North-Crimean channel works as usual, all irrigation systems are working,” reads the statement on the agency’s website.

According to the statement, despite Russia’s claims otherwise, it has not offered signing a contract to regulate water supplies to Crimea, and thus the peninsula currently uses the water without any legal permission.

“The channel does not run during the winter season. We turned on the water supplies on March 19, and the current Crimean customers’ debt reached $0.14 million and it has not been settled yet," says the water agency’s statement.

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Ukraina har stengt vannet til Krim - Nyheter, tv og radio fra hele verden - NRK.no

▻http://www.nrk.no/verden/ukraina-har-stengt-vannet-til-krim-1.11685583

apparemment c’est vrai !

Ukraina har stengt vanntilførsel til Krim

Myndighetene i Kiev har stengt igjen vannet til Krim, og nå er halvøya avskåret fra 85 prosent av sin ferskvannstilførsel.

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#ukraine #eau

Autre photo de la même série

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Le canal est presque complètement à sec, bien que les Ukrainiens affirment avoir seulement réduit le débit

Sur Newsweek en polonais ▻http://swiat.newsweek.pl/ukraina-konflikt-rosyjsko-ukrainski-o-wschodnia-ukraine-relacja,artyk

Un certain @Peiom a mis à jour WP le 25/04 en reprenant l’info du Kyiv Post.

Kiev suit l’exemple des nazis et prive la Crimée de l’eau - Dernières infos - Société - La Voix de la Russie
▻http://french.ruvr.ru/2014_04_25/Kiev-suit-l-exemple-des-nazis-et-prive-la-Crimee-de-l-eau-7844

Les forces nationalistes qui sont arrivées au pouvoir à Kiev, essaient de provoquer la sécheresse en Crimée au sens propre du terme. Il y a une semaine la junte de Kiev a ordonné de fermer les écluses du canal de Crimée du Nord qui fournit à la péninsule jusqu’à 85% de l’eau utilisée en agriculture.

Aujourd’hui le canal est quasiment vide. Les écluses ont été fermées malgré que la Crimée soit à jour dans ses paiements pour l’eau de Dniepr. Celle-ci est actuellement jetée dans la mer Noire. C’est ce qu’ont fait les occupants nazis lors de la Seconde guerre mondiale.

C’est officiel…

Groysman: Ukraine shuts off Crimea’s water tap
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/business/groysman-ukraine-shuts-off-crimeas-water-tap-345528.html

Ukraine has stopped supplying water to Crimea through the North Crimean water channel, deputy Prime Minister for Regional Policy Volodymyr Groysman told the Kyiv Post on April 25. Until Russia and Ukraine sign an agreement regulating water supplies to Crimea, Groysman said, water supplies from mainland Ukraine will be cut off.

Crimea relies on the rest of Ukraine for 80-85 percent of the water that it consumes.

“It used to be an integral system, but because of the occupation of Crimea, there is now a question – who will pay for the water?” Groysman said.

There are 124 water operating companies in Crimea that lack legally binding agreements with Ukraine’s State Water Resources Agency. Groysman noted that all of these companies have received letters with invitations to sign agreements, but have not responded so far.

… ou presque…

Interestingly, the State Water Resources Agency denies the stoppage of water supplies to Crimea through the North Crimean channel. It only admits that since April 28 the speed of water flow has slowed – it decreased to 11.1 cubic meters per second from 13 cubic meters per second on April 23.

The agency emphasizes that Crimea still receives water, though there are no legal grounds for that. Since April 28, Crimea started taking away 35 percent more water, according to the agency.

The peninsula’s debt for the water has reached $140,000.

Crimea would essentially be an arid desert without the water it gets from the Dnipro River via the 400-kilometer Northern Crimean Canal that connects the peninsula with the Kakhov Reservoir to the north.

Un autre article, une autre photo :

La Crimée pourrait connaître un déficit d’eau potable | Russia Beyond the Headlines

▻http://fr.rbth.com/economie/2014/04/16/la_crimee_pourrait_connaitre_un_deficit_deau_potable_28723.html

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La Crimée pourrait connaître un déficit d’eau potable
16 avril, 2014 Leonid Berresse, Moskovski Komsomolets
Au cours du week-end dernier, les autorités ukrainiennes ont pratiquement coupé l’arrivée d’eau dans le Canal de la Crimée du Nord qui fournit 80% d’eau potable à la péninsule. Au lieu des 100m3/seconde habituels à cette période de l’année, seuls 6 y transitent actuellement. Il existe un risque réel que les deux millions d’habitants locaux – le double en comptant les touristes – soient confrontés à un déficit sévère d’eau, notamment potable, dans les mois à venir.

Pour le tourisme, le problème est réglé : il n’y en a pas…
Essentiellement, semble-t-il, parce qu’il n’y a pas moyen d’aller en Crimée.

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Lifestyle Blog: May holidays bring few tourists to Crimea
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/guide/travel/lifestyle-blog-may-holidays-leave-crimea-with-little-tourist-flow-346026.h

The May holidays usually kick off Crimea’s tourist season, but the web cameras on the Russian-seized peninsula show empty beaches and streets. None of the expected millions of tourists are in sight yet as Ukraine and Russia both take holidays on May 1-2 for Labor Day and on May 9 for Victory Day. 

Earlier, the self-proclaimed prime minister of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, told journalists that the peninsula expects to see at least three million tourists this year, which is half of last year’s total, even if the railway connection with Russia that goes through Ukraine does not get restarted.

Tourism experts, however, did better in predicting Crimea’s grim reality under Russian occupation. The Russian Union of Tourism told Echo of Moscow radio station that the tourist season in Crimea to fail due to transport problems.

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Oui mais ce n’est qu’une question de temps. En Abkhazie, après quelques années,c’est environ un million de touristes qui fréquentent maintenant les côtes abkhazes de la mer noire (et aussi un peu l’intérieur). Pour la Crimée, ce n’est qu’une question de temps aussi