Main Issues Concerning Drinking Water Supply in the Angara River Watershed

• Autorzy: Elena A. Rush
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Main issues concerning drinking water supply in the Angara River watershed.Water supply for drinking and communal-general purposes plays an important role in everyeconomy all over the world as water is not only widely used for people's everyday purposes,but is also essential for people's vital functions. The principle concerning the priorities ofsupplying drinking and communal water, stipulated in relevant norms and regulations,presumes that in the first place people should be provided with water according to the existingscientifically grounded health standards. At the same time, drinking water is only a part ofnatural water resources; thus, it is closely linked to the whole hydro-economic situation ofthe region, and the connection is one of interrelation and interdependence.The territory under consideration stretches from the source of the Angara River downwardsto the city of Bratsk and constitutes the upper and middle sections of the river. Thefollowing features are typical of this territory: high level of urban development, high levelof anthropogenic pressure on water resources, wide scope of water quality and quantityconditions; all of the above result in a difference in drinking water provision between theregions and communities. (original abstract)

Autorka przeanalizowała problematykę gospodarki wodnej rzeki Angary i jej znaczenia ekonomicznego dla kraju.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Economic geography; Water management; Water resources

PL

Geografia ekonomiczna; Gospodarka wodna; Zasoby wodne

• Czasopismo: Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Geographica
• Rocznik: 2012
• Tom: 3 Innowacyjność usług turystycznych w układach przestrzennych
• Strony: 109--115

Twórcy

autor

Elena A. Rush

• Irkutsk State Transport University, Russia

Bibliografia

• Bezrukov L.A., 2001, Environment State of the Water Bodies of the Irkutsk Region // Natural Resources Potential and Use - Irkutsk: Institute of Geography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Publishing House, pp.97-111
• Nature Resources and Environment Protection. Statistical Report, 2007, Irkutsk Regional Committee on Statistics, Irkutsk, 50 p.
• Industry of the Irkutsk Region in 2007. Statistical Report, 2008, Irkutsk Regional Committee on Statistics, Irkutsk, 44 p.