STATE AND PROSPECTS OF REHABILITATION AND MODERNIZATION OF LAND RECLAMATION SYSTEMS IN MODERN CONDITIONS
Abstract
Although Ukraine has a modern, scientifically sound, properly enshrined at the legislative and executive levels of the state policy on land reclamation development, the main goal of which is to create an efficient irrigation and drainage sector managed with the participation of water users as the basis for transforming Ukraine into one of the world leaders in food production and export in the context of climate change, the main task of this policy, namely, increasing the area of irrigation and water regulation, is practically not being fulfilled. This is the result of fetishizing the role of the creation of water management organizations and transferring only working irrigation and drainage systems to the ownership of the grassroots level of irrigation and drainage infrastructure. As a result, and due to the lack of a mechanism and sources of VAT payment for the infrastructure transferred to the ownership of the WUCs, the latter are unable to ensure the registration of ownership rights to it and, as a result, to increase the area of irrigation and water regulation by developing and implementing projects for the reconstruction and modernization of this infrastructure, even if they have their own funds for their implementation.
In addition to the military aggression of the russian federation, the reasons for the stagnation of the process of increasing irrigation and water regulation are also the lack of mechanisms for creating water management companies on non-operational irrigation and drainage systems, financial support through access to medium- and long-term preferential loans for the implementation of irrigation and water regulation works on non-operational irrigation and drainage systems by water management companies, failure to implement the "Action Plan...", first of all, works on inventory, financial, technical and energy audit of existing irrigation and drainage systems, audit of the use of irrigated and drained lands, feasibility studies and projects for the involvement of water resources of the Danube River. Danube River, restoration of the water-regulating and water-storage capacity of Polissya and a number of other tasks without which the full launch of the process of increasing irrigation and water regulation is impossible.
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