In the right-bank Kherson region, about 10,000 hectares of fields were flooded due to the undermining of the hydroelectric power station
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As a result of the Russian occupiers undermining the Kakhovskaya HPP in the Kherson Region, about 10,000 hectares of agricultural land on the right bank alone were flooded – the volume is several times greater in the occupied territories.
She informed about such a preliminary assessment press service Ministry of Agricultural Policy
Approximately 10,000 hectares of agricultural land on the right bank of the Kherson region were flooded due to the water spill. On the left bank – several times more, but these territories are currently occupied.
In addition, the disaster will stop the water supply of 31 field irrigation systems in the Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions. It is noted that in 2021, these systems provided irrigation for 584 thousand hectares.
This year, only 13 irrigation systems worked on the right bank of the Dnieper. Now 94% of irrigation systems in Kherson, 74% – in Zaporizhia, and 30% – in Dnipropetrovsk regions are left without a source of water.
Minagro says that this will lead to the fact that the fields in the south of Ukraine may turn into a desert next year.
Also, without the Kakhovsky Reservoir, sources of drinking water supply for settlements will suffer.
The consequences for fisheries are critical. The death of fish, both young and adults, is already recorded. The spawning period has just ended, and due to the drop in the water level, the spawn will dry out in the wet areas. The fauna of the reservoir carried away by the flow of water into the floodplains formed below the dam of the Kakhovskaya HPP will also die.
Another problem will be the entry and death of freshwater fish and other biological resources in the salty waters of the Black Sea. In turn, the Black Sea fauna can also die from the massive influx of fresh water.
Losses to the fishing industry from the death of only adults can reach 95 thousand tons or about 4 billion hryvnias. In total, according to preliminary calculations, losses from the death of all biological resources will amount to UAH 10.5 billion.
Such consequences of water devastation will continue for several years, even if the bed of the Kakhovsky reservoir is filled in the near future, the department noted.
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