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This is the result of additional pumps having been installed at the two intake facilities.
Inhabitants of the Russian-occupied Crimea are complaining about poor quality tap water supplied to their households.
Residents of different districts of Simferopol are sharing across social networks photos of a rusty liquid flowing from their taps.
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According to the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper in Crimea, such poor water quality is due to the installation of two additional pumps at the Ivanovo and Vilina water intake facilities.
Prior to the occupation of Crimea by Russia, Ukraine used to cover up to 85% of the peninsula's needs for freshwater through the North Crimean Canal.
After the annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014, Ukraine severed water supplies to the occupied peninsula.
Water reserves in Crimea are replenished from natural runoff reservoirs and underground sources.
Environmentalists say the regular use of water from underground sources has led to soil salinization.
On September 7, in Simferopol, Bakhchisarai, and Simferopol districts, due to ongoing drought and shallowing of reservoirs, the third, most severe, stage of water supply restrictions was introduced.
On the same day, an OHCHR representative said it is Russia that bears responsibility for ensuring water supplies to occupied Crimea.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says the resumption of water supplies to Crimea would be possible only in the context of the end of the Russian occupation. At the same time, there is no humanitarian crisis with freshwater in occupied Crimea whatsoever, the chief of Ukraine's diplomacy emphasizes. "The narrative about the 'humanitarian crisis' was invented by Russian propaganda in order to convince the world that water supplies to Crimea are necessary."