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Assessing Recent Approaches to Quality Control and Conservation of Surface Waters

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The quality of Russia’s surface waters is analyzed. The main problems of quality control are highlighted: drinking water at odds with specified standards, defects of the economic mechanism of quality control of natural waters, the obsolete and contradictory legislative and regulatory framework for water-body management, the low efficiency of supervision, and the weakness of the monitoring and statistical system. The drawbacks of the scientific and methodological framework for water quality control are noted. The necessity to shift to a risk-oriented approach to nature-conservation regulation is substantiated. The currently employed zero-risk concept fails to meet target indicators of water quality.

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This study was a State Assignment (topic no. 0147-2019-0004) and was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 17-05-00842).

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  1. Institute of Water Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    V. I. Danilov-Danil’yan, E. V. Venitsianov, G. V. Adzhienko & M. A. Kozlova

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Correspondence to V. I. Danilov-Danil’yan, E. V. Venitsianov, G. V. Adzhienko or M. A. Kozlova.

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Danilov-Danil’yan, V.I., Venitsianov, E.V., Adzhienko, G.V. et al. Assessing Recent Approaches to Quality Control and Conservation of Surface Waters. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 89, 599–607 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331619060029

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