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The Problem of Reducing the Diffuse Pollution of Water Bodies and Improving the Efficiency of Water Protection Programs

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Regularities in the formation of diffuse pollution of water bodies are discussed as their understanding is required for the development of an adequate water-protection strategy. The main scientific, methodological, and managerial problems of the regulation of diffuse pollution are related to the character of pollutant inputs into the environment and the complex character of the relationships between the anthropogenic impact on the drainage area and the response of a water body (changes in water quality and the environmental conditions) to such impact. The major lines and the basic principles for the implementation of the concept of reducing diffuse pollution are outlined; they are of general environmental character, but gain in importance in the context of regulation of diffuse pollution sources either in the Volga basin or in other water bodies suffering considerable effect of economic activity.

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    V. I. Danilov-Danilyan, V. O. Polyanin, T. B. Fashchevskaya, N. V. Kirpichnikova, M. A. Kozlova & E. V. Venitsianov

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Danilov-Danilyan, V.I., Polyanin, V.O., Fashchevskaya, T.B. et al. The Problem of Reducing the Diffuse Pollution of Water Bodies and Improving the Efficiency of Water Protection Programs. Water Resour 47, 691–701 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S009780782005005X

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