14 Apr 2014 13:14

Ukraine reduces water supplies to Crimea - Temirgaliyev

SIMFEROPOL. April 14 (Interfax) - Dniepr water supplies to Crimea via the North Crimean canal have been cut down almost by two-thirds at the behest of Kyiv, Crimean First Deputy Prime Minister Rustam Temirgaliyev said.

"While the norm is approximately 50 cubic meters per second, the current flow is about 16 cubic meters per second, and that is because we found a technical solution preventing them from cutting off this water entirely. They cut the supplies practically three times," Temirgaliyev told reporters in Simferopol.

The authority which regulates receipt of Dniepr water in the North Crimean canal has cut the supplies at the demand of the deputy chief of the Ukrainian presidential administration, Andriy Senchenko, he said.