Baku, Fineko/abc.az. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine can be considered from different points of view, but it definitely introduces a new era of global climatic wars.

Ecologists have long been warning about the wars for natural resources (fresh water, livable territories) that would start due to climate changes. However, they expected them to happen in Africa or Middle East, but it’s seems that the first climatic war (war for fresh water) started in Europe in spite of the fact that it seems to have no lack of water.

Incredible as it may seem, the first volley of this war has been fired by Ukraine suffering from Russian expansion and not willing to fight against common people (a kind of European way). Kievan government almost fully blocked North-Crimean water channel as a protest against annexation of Crimea by Russia. The launched strike was sophisticated and accurate: by the start of irrigation season the irrigated agriculture has become impossible at the Crimean farm lands. Expected losses are estimated at the level of 5 bn rubles.

Technically Russia will not be able to introduce trickle irrigation in Crimea this season, nor to lay water line from Kuban. However, Russia is quite able to leave Ukraine itself without sufficient water supply.

Yesterday Nikolay Sukhoy, Chairman of Russian Water Industry and Melioration Union, proposed to fire the next volley of the climatic war, saying that Ukraine won’t get away with blocking the water supply to Crimea.

“The heads of Dnieper and its main tributary Desna are situated in Russia and Ukraine cannot just block the water supply, as it interested in supply of water from Russia to Dnieper. Our fraternal peoples live along the banks of one river and it should be taken into account”, – Sukhoy said.

Though the Water Industry and Melioration Union is a non-commercial organization but Russian threat is quite evident: if you don’t resume water supply to Crimea we will leave Dnieper without water. So what else could it be if not the first war for fresh water in history?

Meanwhile, Russia possessing main resources of fresh water and livable territories in Europe has the strongest weapon in this age of climatic war. It’s stronger than all its energy resources, palladium, rare earth elements and uranium reserves, though the market analysts are so afraid that all those resources could be taken from the world market.

25.04.2014 09:15