Water Safety of the Steppe Crimea and the Possible Ways to Its Improvement

The level of water safety of the Steppe Crimea has been analyzed. The water safety has been shown to be mostly determined by the water availability in the fields of agricultural crops, primarily, cereals, cultivated in the region. The main component of water resources in the Steppe Crimea is soil water resources. The possible strategies for increasing the water availability in agrocenoses and the efficiency of the use of soil water reserves in the Steppe Crimea have been analyzed. The main strategy for improvement of water availability for agroecosystems in the region has been shown to be the strategy of development of green farming , based on the rational use of natural resources through the development of nature-use technologies oriented on nature-based processes, in particular, the use of no-till technology of minimal soil treatment with mulching its surface with plant remains.