“We will provide for everyone” – a register of drinking water will be created in Russia
Russian regions are unevenly supplied with water.
Natural Resources Minister Alexander Kozlov announced this today at a plenary meeting of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The standard water supply per person is 220 liters per day. In our country, security is uneven. In the north it exceeds 500 liters, and in the south it may not reach 100. The deficiency is compensated by surface water, but it is not available everywhere, and its quality varies. Therefore, we are intensifying geological exploration of underground sources. We are starting to search for water in Karelia, Kalmykia, Kamchatka, Buryatia, Chechnya, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Khabarovsk, Kaliningrad, Astrakhan, Kurgan, Amur, Jewish and Irkutsk regions,” Kozlov said.
A national register of drinking water will be created in Russia, thanks to which the rational use of water resources will be monitored.
“The main resource is drinking water. To date, the country has issued 52 thousand licenses for the search and production of drinking and technical groundwater. At the same time, we do not see almost 80% of these licenses at the federal level, since since 2014 the authority to issue them has been transferred to the regions,” Kozlov said.
But from 2022, thanks to amendments to the subsoil law, all entities are required to upload their license data, including archival ones, into the federal subsoil licensing system.
“In particular, based on this data, we will create a national register of drinking water. It will collect all databases on licenses, reserves, production and consumption levels.
We will be able to quickly control the rational use of water resources, calculate needs and redistribute our forces and money to find water in certain regions that need it,” Kozlov concluded.
The pilot region was the Tula region, followed by the Kaluga region, Stavropol region and the Chechen Republic.
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