20th century problems on 21st century #Crimea: Unlike in Soviet times, #watersupply is not any longer a complicated infrastructural, but today a simple financial issue. 1/4 
A broad variety of #desalinationtechnologies is today allowing many countries with insufficient #freshwater reserves, e.g. Israel, Saudi Arabia or Iraq, to live on desalinated sea water. Yet, #Moscow is unwilling to invest money into building #Crimean d
#desalination plants. 2/4
#desalination plants. 2/4
Instead, #Kremlinmedia portrays falling #freshwatersupply on Crimea as a #humanitariandisaster caused by #Ukrainian stubbornness. Many brainwashed #Russians may accept this geopolitical rather than financial-technical explanation of #Crimea's principal infrastructural issue. 3/4
They may thus support a #Russian #militaryadvance to the #DniproRiver deep into mainland #Ukraine, in order to solve #Crimeans' fresh water problem. Many in the #West seem to be unaware of the increasing explosiveness of the more and more dire situation on and around #Crimea. 4/4
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