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How did the canal from the Dnieper River increase water supplies for the Donets Basin?
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The Don River at Rostov-na-Donu, Russia.
The Donets Basin industrial region historically faced chronic water shortages, exacerbated by heavy industrial usage and pollution of the Donets River. To address these critical supply issues, a canal was constructed in the 1970s to divert and carry additional water supplies from the Dnieper River to the Donets region.12