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>Now there’s a call not to rebuild it. Pretty fucked up seeing as it supplies the area with residential water as well as irrigation. Without it much of the sur
by cf141q5325 3y ago
>Now there’s a call not to rebuild it.
Pretty fucked up seeing as it supplies the area with residential water as well as irrigation. Without it much of the surrounding will be barren. You can see the difference on satellite pictures of Crimea from when Ukraine closed the channel after Russian takeover.
Article mentions it as well.
>However, that decision is likely to be made. Tuboltsev tries to be realistic, noting that thousands of homes, businesses, and farms depended on the reservoir for their water supply, and there simply may not be other options.
edit: Thanks for the correction! Apparently barren isnt synonymous with infertile. I meant the later.
- jahewson 3y agoIt’s worse than that - the farms in the area are situated on the most fertile kind of soil in the world. These are important wheat growers on a global scale.
- NegativeLatency 3y agoProbably fertile because of historical flooding from the river?
- cf141q5325 3y agoI dont think the flooding reached that far. Point of filling up the damn before blowing it was to create a wide as possible flood to make crossing the area impossible. So its unlikely that the flooding without the damn would have reached much further?
- Muromec 3y agoResidential use isn't a lot, as the area is very sparsely populated, so it's about using less water-intensive crops there. Farmers will have to adapt to not having a dam for the next few years anyway, so reasoning goes -- maybe we will not rebuild the dam once everybody figured out what to do without it. Barren is quite a stretch. Here is what a natural reserve in the area looks like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askania-Nova https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askania-Nova. People lived in the South before the dam was build and will live there regardless of it being rebuild.
- cf141q5325 3y ago>Residential use isn't a lot, as the area is very sparsely populated, Crimea and Cherson are both not small. Sorry about the use of the word barren, this isnt my first language. I meant agriculture will be over. The satellite pictures of Crimea i saw a while back looked quite drastic, this wont be any different. And as the other poster pointed out correctly, this is fertile wheat area. What kind of alternative crop did you have in mind? I havent heard of any feasible suggestions.
- geoka9 3y ago> The satellite pictures of Crimea i saw a while back looked quite drastic, this wont be any different. And as the other poster pointed out correctly, this is fertile wheat area. To be specific, Crimea is not (Kherson is). Crimea is mostly dry steppes. They used to grow quite a bit of rice there, but that was because of the dam and the water it provided.
- cf141q5325 3y agoThats interesting, do you know how Kherson agriculture looked before the damn?
- geoka9 3y agoIf you lived anywhere in Ukraine, you're probably familiar with Kherson watermelons, strawberries, potatoes... You name it. And lots has been written about its wheat.
- cf141q5325 3y agoArent watermelons and strawberries really water intensive as well?
- jncfhnb 3y agoThat’s due to the dam though, isn’t it? It’s not naturally able to support such things
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