Summary of the Analysis of Water Issues in the Siverskyi Donets river and Programme of Measures to Address Them
SURFACE WATER STATUS
SURFACE WATER POLLUTION To reduce pollution of the Don basin with organic, biogenic and hazardous substances (diffuse and point sources), the proposed measures are aimed at several types of economic entities:
housing and utilities companies: reconstruction, capital repairs and new construction of treatment facilities, drainage networks and water conditioning facilities using the latest technologies; agricultural enterprises (agriculture and related services): construction of sewage treatment plants; disposal of agricultural waste, composting, introduction of state-of-the-art technologies of waste processing and neutralization; prevention of technological emergencies, monitoring of stability of the hydraulic structures of manure storages, accumulators of hazardous animal waste; responsible and regulated use of mineral and organic fertilizers, chemical products for plant protection, including pesticides; creation of buffer zones between the water body and the utilized areas (planting of windbreaks, brushwood strips, unploughed areas of arable land); application of best agricultural practices, transition to organic production; 79
