Scientists are sounding the alarm that Ukraine plans to build six large hydroelectric power plants on the Dniester - in Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk and Chernivtsi regions.
This cascade of dams, says Elena Zubkova, doctor of biological sciences, professor at the Institute of Zoology of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, will completely drain the waters of the Dniester, which will entail a sharp reduction in their flow into the Black Sea. And what does this threaten in general? A global catastrophe, and especially for Moldova, although, of course, the entire Black Sea region will suffer. And the Earth as a whole will get well …
Even Soviet researchers warned that hydroelectric power plants cannot be built immensely on the rivers that carry water to the Black Sea. The Black Sea is unique, it consists of only 10 percent water (the top layer does not exceed 200 meters), everything else is hydrogen sulfide, which lies throughout the depth of this reservoir - in some places this explosive layer reaches more than two thousand meters.
The release of hydrogen sulfide to the surface of the sea can lead to an explosion comparable to the collision of the Earth with an asteroid only half the size of the Moon. It is difficult even to imagine the global consequences of such a cataclysm, and Moldova in this case may cease to exist altogether, but not only it will suffer, almost the entire planet.
Today, Elena Zubkova continues, many residents of Moldova are concerned about the question, what will become of the country in terms of providing it with water, if Ukraine builds six hydroelectric power stations, comparable to Dubossary? But this is only a small problem compared to the reduction in the water layer of the Black Sea, which would entail such thoughtless construction. By the way, this layer over the last century, just in view of the construction of hydroelectric power plants on the rivers carrying water to the Black Sea, has already decreased from 200-250 meters to 100-150 meters. The creation of a whole cascade of hydroelectric power plants on the Dniester can reduce this layer to 30-50 meters. And this is a real disaster, and not so much an ecologically protracted one, on which the government of Ukraine spits from a large bell tower, as threatening an instant planetary catastrophe.
Scientists in Moldova hope that the world community will react accordingly and will not allow Ukraine to build hydroelectric power plants on the Dniester, which are comparable to laying a mine for the well-being of all mankind. Otherwise, all of us will live on a planet, which, figuratively speaking, is approaching an asteroid almost the size of the moon. And although the point of its "landing" will be known - the Black Sea, it may end sadly not only for Moldova and other regions of the Black Sea region, but for all mankind …
