Cleaner than natural water: Experts are asked to revise the requirements for the purification of mineral water in Russia.

Responsible Approach

As a part of the debate, “Mineral Water. Regulation features, Regional Standards” Petr Bobylev, Director of the Coal Industry Department of the Ministry of Energy, we talked about 170 million tons of Russian companies, despite the restoration of the economy after the Pandemic and sanction conditions). This shows an important approach of an enterprise, but according to him, the pushing of inflated environmental requirements and the Company’s “purification of water to the state of distillates” becomes an important problem for companies.

“Natural water is usually hundred times more than standards for the content of pollutants, it exceeds the parameters in which Russian enterprises operate. Even according to the paintings in space, you can see these orange rivers to large water pools,” he said.

The fact that enterprises should return to the environment in the same situation after using water resources, the Federal State Budget Authority “VNII Ecology” is also said by the Director of Alexander Lawdyrin. According to him, this is a rational approach that will enable environmental safety to avoid unfair costs.

“It is clear that different water bodies contain water with different quality and chemical compositions – in a series of water zones, even before being used in the production cycle, leaves too much, does not contain pollutants and is not used for consumption. Alexander Lawdyrin said.

Individual metrics

One of the options for increasing the efficiency of the state regulation in the field of water use can be the creation of individual standards for natural water quality in mining basins – reasonable work requirements.

For example, the Perm region said it plans to create offers with Rosrybolovstvo to create individual standards for the quality of natural water in Kizelovsky Coal Basin.

Kizelovsky Coal Basin (Cuba) provided the work of many strategic and defense businesses in Russia, and in 200 years there were 500 million tons of coal from 95 minerals. In 2020, active work began with Federal officials to solve Cuba’s problems. Dmitry Belanovich, experts conducted research studies, developed scientific -based suggestions to prevent pollution of water bodies, organized to monitor their situation.

Economic problem

The removal of the underground method of minerals is accompanied by a large natural flow of natural water required to ensure the security of the miner.

Environmental legislation constitutes the principle of technological regulation that focuses on the best technologies used by nature users. However, the priority of technological regulation was not synchronized with other legislation. This has led to the fact that the Russian Federation’s water law and the federal law “Fishing and Such Biological Resources Protection do not take into account the main objective of technological regulation and cleaning all pollutants (including natural origin) require water for harsh fisheries (including natural origin).

Norilsk Nickel representative emphasized: In order to remain within the framework of the legal field, it is necessary to apply deep cleaning methods that are very costly to use. For example, the application cost in Norilsk industrial zone conditions will be approximately 300 billion rubles and the cost of annual operating cleaning systems is estimated to be approximately 20 billion rubles per year.

Excessive legislative requirements do not solve the irrational costs of enterprises, reducing tax revenues, and most paradoxically solve the problems of pollution of water bodies, but lead to a large number of new dangerous hazard waste.