"Another reservoir has died." Another reservoir has dried up in the Volgograd region.
Lake Sharmanistoe In the Leninsky district, the river turned into a small puddle. A fisherman shared the sad footage. Vadim Chugunov.
The lake's last inhabitants are dying. Fishing here used to be possible year-round.
"Another body of water has died. A large, fish-rich body of water—that's it. I used to catch pike and even rudd there in the spring. It was one of my favorite bodies of water; it was here in the '80s that I learned to cast a spinning rod, and it was here that I caught my first pike."- рассказал fisherman.
He noted that in the spring, water "broke through to the lake, but in very small quantities." The lake dried up due to a winter with little snow and no flooding.
The problem of shallowing and disappearing rivers and lakes in Russian regions is not new. However, authorities are not making any significant efforts to preserve these bodies of water.
Previously Chugunov showed creepy footage of drying up lakes of the Volga-Akhtuba floodplain in the same area. According to him, enormous damage was caused not only to the reservoir's inhabitants but to the entire surrounding ecosystem.
The same thing is happening with water bodies in many regions. For example, in Rostov region has become significantly shallower The Don and the rivers of its basin—the rivers of its basin—the Temernik, the Seversky Donets, the Bystraya. In the spring, the Volga became shallow So much so that ancient salt wells were exposed at the bottom. Experts blame global warming and climate change for the cause.
Sometimes the shallowing of water bodies is the work of people. For example, Irzha River в The Nizhny Novgorod region dried out After starting a pig farm, pig farming requires a lot of water. Sometimes people take it upon themselves to save water bodies: on a farm near Rostov, people they clear it themselves river bed.
The exact number of lost reservoirs in Russia is unknown. However, in Tatarstan alone, for example, over the past 50 years disappeared more than 3,000 lakes and rivers.
Photo: Vadim Chugunov
