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Pollution turning Ukrainian water reservoirs into estuaries
29.01.2018 23:11 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
As of 2017, over 2 milliard cubic meters of sewage waters were spilled into the country water reservoirs, while only two-thirds of the latter underwent treatment, UNIAN says referring to Head of Ukrainian Association of Fishermen Oleksandr Chistyakov report.
As to the report, motorway deicing with salt-containing chemicals has led the salinity of Ukrainian reservoirs being equal to that of estuaries. Harmful reagents wash down to the Dnipro River with each thaw.
As to Chistyakov, today saltwater needlefish and small jellyfish can be found within Kakhovka and Kremenchuk reservoirs.
«Today, there are 63,000 rivers, 1,100 reservoirs, 40,000 lakes, and 400,000 ponds within Ukraine. We have 1.1 million hectares of fresh water, while still considered a country with scarce fresh water resources on the European map. That is because we have polluted our reservoirs so much that we cannot take drinking water from them,» he said.
As to the earlier report, within 2017, the All-Ukrainian Ecological League and the Association of Fishermen called on the authorities to prohibit at the legislative level the discharge of pollutants into rivers, as well as to stop the illegal industrial extraction of sand from the Dnipro River with suction dredgers.
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