"The amount of work that we are doing, for this and the coming years, the problem will be removed, but it is imperative to engage in additional water search, taking into account the development of the entire territory," RIA Novosti quotes the Deputy Prime Minister.
Earlier Khusnullin said that the authorities expect to start drilling wells in the Sea of Azov in July to provide the Crimea with fresh water.
Also, the Crimean authorities said that the potential of aquifers under the bottom of the Sea of Azov is being studied.
According to the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic Yevgeny Kabanov, a number of underground fresh water deposits are being developed at the same time in the Bakhchisarai and Simferopol regions.