In summer the water has moved so much that navigation was in jeopardy. Some suburban routes were canceled and the gardeners get to his six hundred square meters in stuffy buses, if not on foot. Killing hundreds of tons of fish, dozens of suburban cooperatives were left without water. We still survived this difficult summer. But today the water in the Volga River is very small. Its level is at elevation 14.22 meters, while the so-called design mark retaining normal level is 15 meters. Really deep river dries up in her eyes, and a couple of years it will be possible to ford? Comment on the situation, we asked experts, asking them five naive questions about the shallowing of the Volga.

This year the conditions were really extreme. Despite the huge amount of snow, flooding in the area was scarce, and the reservoir does not get enough water. Plus an abnormally hot summer without a drop of rain and water discharge from the Volgograd reservoir downstream that it will last in the Astrakhan region for spawning sturgeon. As a result, in early summer, the water went away before our eyes. On the waterfront, after the Volga retreated to 5 meters, the stench was impossible to breathe, the beach cleaned dozens of volunteers. Floundered on the beach, more dead fish, the fishermen shrugged and said that such disasters do not remember. The water level in June fell to 13.68 meters.

Meanwhile, environmentalists point out that such a fall of water level in the Volga River was before. In 1977, for example, to a record low of 13.19 meters. Little water in the Volga River was in 1967, 1975 and 1996. Experts note that now in a phase of water shortage, which lasts on average 10-11 years.

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