OBSERVATION FOR WATER BODIES AND CONTROL FOR THEIR CONDITION

Abstract

The urgent problem of water objects monitoring is considered. Since providing the population with quality drinking water is one of the most important factors of health protection, the automated information system for state monitoring of water objects of the Russian Federation, developed in the North Caucasus branch of the Russian Scientific Research Institute of Integrated Use and Protection Water resources, has a great scientific and practical value both for monitoring and management of water bodies, and in general for nature protection and human health. The primary information obtained in the result of water bodies and their water protection zones observations and then coming from various water user organizations in accordance with the approved regular observations program form a significant data set, which is the basis of the established unified information base using AIS SMWO. The water body observations program is a list of mandatory actions for the selection and analysis of samples in the water area used by the water user. The owners of water bodies and water users should deliver an annual report on the observations, which indicates the morphometric characteristics of water bodies, and the state of ecosystems of water protection zones and erosion processes, and also the degree of anthropogenic pressure on water bodies. The article describes in detail the forms of relevant information submission for the given base formation by water users, the list of indicators for which is determined by the corresponding Order of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation.