The Kakhovka dam and global food security
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Ukraine's Main Bread Basket Could Be a Desert
The reservoir fed a canal system that has basically turned an arid plane into irrigating Ukraine's main bread basket. Kira, is this going to start becoming a desert? Will Ukraine's face food shortages? It is indeed terrifying. So, we hear right now that there are some other options, and we hope that they will be used. But same way as we do not have any control of the occupied territories near Herson region right now, where people do not receive help,. We cannot confirm that Russia will be using proper mechanisms in the Parisian nuclear plant to actually cool it down.
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