land, no access to drinking water. russia contains one fifth of the world's fresh water reserves. will our country be able to provide it for the entire planet? is water really the new oil? we are discussing the topic with our guests. in the studio today are the director of the center for the development of the water management complex of the ministry of natural resources of russia ilya razbash, the chairman of the russian ecological society rashid ismayil, the ambassador of the environmental campaign water of russia, actress yulia mikhalkova and the director of the volga department - one of the largest river lands and the largest basin area and length in europe has turned green. in saratov this year it became overgrown with algae much earlier than usual. residents of the city sounded the alarm. the volga began to turn green in july, by august the entire surface of the river in saratov seemed to have an acidic color, and algae began to bloom. then the unpleasant smell of hydrogen sulfide appeared.

the plants began to rot, the picture was completed by household garbage in the water, dead fish and unknown knocks in the area of ​​​​the new beach, swimming was prohibited there, e. coli was found, only the level of bloom increases every year, that is, blue-green algae, brown algae, the smell of constantly decomposing remains, that is, the fish are dying out because oxygen becomes scarce. ecologists explain that this year, due to the heat, the algae bloomed earlier than usual and more strongly. the main reason is runoff from storm sewers, they believe. the volga op is the river that suffers the most from pollution in russia, according to roshydromet, they account for 60% of such cases. the main sources of water pollution are industrial enterprises, primarily the mining industry, housing and communal services sector and agriculture. why the volga becomes greener every year and who is in charge. source

of pollution. yulia, environmentalists quite competently explained everything in the story in the summary, this is really so, these are key problems , not only for russia, for the entire planet, high temperatures, abnormally high temperatures, over a long period, blooming of reservoirs, and blooming, blooming, blooming, and of course, pollution, everything that happens on this river, is a process in which, forgive me, please, we are to blame. man, the same, the main polluter who, well, forms the muck that gets in, well, how , that is, we come, throw a bottle there from this, no, no, discharges, untreated discharges, through direct flow, we have a house on the shore or not far away, we laid a pipe, disguised it, dumped it into the river, no one regulates us, no one supervises us, no one controls us, do people really do that, they themselves swim here, i’m telling you, there are a lot of such cases, this called pipes that are not

regulated, what is the difference between large industrialists, because they are visible, they are regulated, they pay for the negative impact, they pay for emissions, they clean, they clean, they pay, it is reasonable here , there will probably be further development, here is the federal clean water project , to the requirements for a specific pipe, for a specific owner, in any case, if we talk about industry, it is absolutely obvious that they should probably have some... the same quotas as for emissions into the atmosphere today we have to start working on these things, i’m not talking about normatively permissible discharges, i’m still talking about quota reductions, well, in reality, metallurgical plants are serious, let’s say, they also like, and also like to place production in the mainstream rivers, production and, accordingly, what technologies you use to minimize this impact, it starts with

the simple, it starts with understanding the material water balance, how much we take, where we get it, why, where, how much we lose, how much can be converted to a closed water circulation, that's putting things in order in your own household, it gives these effects, let's say in vachensk they reduced it, and by switching the cooling of the factory plant to a closed water cycle they reduced discharges into the chulym river by 30%, which means they did the same thing in krasnoturinsk theologically... well and this is expensive, these are very expensive, that is, business is now ready to invest, must do it and is ready and invests and invests, it is their task to be responsible for the territory of presence of their enterprises, an enterprise today can compete if it really is environmentally responsible, if a policy is implemented, if technology is applied, i suggest you look at the wastewater treatment plants and how the volga is cleaned.

a separate federal project is dedicated to the volga as the main water artery of the country. in the twenty-fourth year, the volume of polluted runoff into it should decrease by more than 2 km per year, that is, three times compared to 2017. we are preparing a large federal project to improve the health of water bodies , here we want to apply an approach suitable for the whole russian federation to divide populated areas by type in terms of cleaning methods in terms of technological solutions based on the best available technologies. we want to come to some kind of standard. cleaning facilities for small towns cannot cost more than for cities with a population of over a million. and today, unfortunately, this is the picture. there is. most treatment facilities in russia were built more than half a century ago. since 2019, thanks to the federal clean water project , 824 drinking water supply facilities have been put into operation, old ones were repaired or new ones were built.

businesses also participate in the process of system modernization. sbers is helping the administration of vologda implement a project to modernize and update the drinking water supply system in the city. how do we do this? and we financed it. construction of a new plant for the production of high-tech , environmentally friendly and safe and more durable pipes to implement the tasks of constructing water supply systems, in addition to the fact that we, of course, in this way solve the problem of vologda in the long term use these pipes can be expanded and applied to other regions. thanks to the joint efforts of business, the authorities managed to provide quality drinking water to almost 88 residents of the country, this is how modern treatment systems work today. the source water, river water, is initially treated with all the necessary reagents, this is a coagulant, fulculand for primary disinfection with electrolytic sodium hypochlorite. here there are clarifiers equipped

with thin-layer modules in which primary water purification occurs, that is, large contaminants, coagulated, settle to the bottom, the already clarified water then enters the last stage of purification, filtration. you also have purification, this is what you were talking about, approximately, or not , well, it is additionally purified by specifics, that is , quite toxic pollutants that end up in wastewater, so we install additional ion exchange stages there, and additional purification, let’s say there from secondary compounds, and what’s more, we focus our discharges on internal circulation, this is extremely important, this is exactly the ideology construction. yulia, tell me, you travel a lot along the volga and russian rivers in general, what have you seen? in general, i want to say that a different culture of attitude towards water resources and nature in general is being formed in society, and i see this personally,

within the framework of the national ecology project , the water of russia team is working, we have been holding clean-up days in all corners of russia for many years, and i want to say that i see more and more... people joining our project, more young people, and it is clear that there is such a trend towards a completely different view of nature, now it’s not fashionable to litter, now it’s fashionable to take care of nature, 100,000 people have so far taken part in the water of russia campaign, we removed approximately 13,500 kamaz trucks of garbage from the banks of water bodies throughout the country, these are all 89 regions in our new territories. about half a thousand people also took part, approximately the coastline , which was cleaned up about 65 km, in our ecology park this work is quite actively being carried out, and the volga is being cleaned, and other objects, and baikal is being cleaned, now the government has adopted the decision to expand this program

, because it has proven its effectiveness, this is the trend that we must come to, collecting less, what does this mean, means less littering, you also have russian aluminum since the eleventh year, i must say that the dynamics of waste collection, rashid noted, it tends to decrease, let’s say last saturday we held a day of the yenisei river, a day of the chulym river , in the city of achinsk, more than 13,000 people came out, in general in russian cities, and in achinsk, for example, we collected 260 bags of garbage, of which there are 170 or so there, they immediately sorted this garbage according to the principle of metal, plastic, glass, that is. and people, people come with their families, people come not only enterprise workers, townspeople come and restore order to their rivers. russian companies regularly carry out their environmental campaigns, for example, sberbank, together with the bezrek foundation, pays tribute to the volga every year on volga day; this spring alone, 30,000 people

removed a ton of garbage from the banks of the water artery, and also took samples for research and released them into the river more than a thousand fry. of course, keeping our water bodies clean. this is the responsibility not only of the state, but also of civil society, it is necessary to influence people’s worldview , to cultivate the right attitude towards nature, as... a creative person and a representative of show business, i think in metaphors, and i will act in works of art, here we have them for rental the film spirit of baikal is coming out, everyone will be able to feel this cold breath of baikal, admire the majestic nature, of course, we are raising such an important topic there, the relationship between man and nature, at the same time, with the spirit of baikal, we helped in the republic of buryatia to remove... 10 km of the coastline together with our colleagues from moskvarium from garbage, well, actually, this is

such creativity on the one hand, and work on the other hand. another problem of our water resources is shallowing, and this is often not only the fault of humans. tura, a river in the sverdlovsk and tyumen regions. this season her level has dropped to a critical level. may was hot in the region. first, natural fires raged, then abnormally high temperatures. this situation. it began to take shape back in the nineteenth and twentieth years, yes, that is, when a soil moisture deficit began to form, the tura collects its water in the early middle urals, then it flows through the sverlovsk region and collects water from 80,000 km, these are the conditions of dry soil and deficit snow precipitation, because snow is the main source of water for our rivers. the enesei also became shallow this season; after a winter with little snow, spring came without rainfall, rainfall... the water inflow turned out to be 50-70% below normal. due to natural reasons, rivers become shallow

first of all, due to climate change, first of all, this is due to a decrease in the total amount of precipitation, which is observed in many regions of the globe; the don river has become shallower; over the past 30 years, its water content, that is, the annual flow rate, has decreased. by 30, this is a lot, the reason is that the don basically flows almost entirely through the steppe and forest-steppe zones, and there the amount of precipitation decreases, these vagaries of the weather, which are caused by global climate changes, they of course affect the flow, shipping on the rtsh has decreased , the barges were loaded to a minimum so as not to run aground. barge. today, i can load only 2,000,800 tons onto it

, and accordingly i don’t get enough. we have already seen that the drying up of rivers affects transport links in cargo transportation, what other areas of the economy suffer from this? reclamation, this is what is suffering from water shortages , especially in the southern regions we have a big problem, because agriculture 70% of all water, all waste water is consumed by farmers, and this food security is jeopardized. needed here think, there is a big program that was signed by the chairman of the government, about 100 billion has been allocated to date, a lot of work has begun, including on the completion of the construction of the bogaevsky hydroelectric complex, which will raise the level of the don so that, in general, shipping will be without problems, but at the same time, rashid correctly noted that agriculture is indeed one of the largest consumers, and speaking of consumers, we are immediately talking about rational... consumption, unfortunately, losses during transportation of water from

places, from source to consumer, sometimes reach 70, in networks, in reclamation canals that were built there a huge number of years ago, ivan, here rusal has a very large amount of energy, almost all the energy for the production of aluminum is obtained from hydroelectric power stations, and the rivers are drying up, becoming shallow, are there any risks for the company, this is a very sensitive topic, and there is a risk... of course there is, because, as you correctly noted, more than 99%, but last year 99.03 percent of the energy used for the production of alumina and aluminum we received from the hydroelectric station and since there is really a transfer, that is, this is a very sensitive topic, a prudent attitude towards water resources, one of the main tasks, including for us, as co-owners of some hydropower facilities together with roshydro, but here it goes through

regulation of wastewater, that is, a separate system for monitoring hydraulic capacity, and the state is involved in this, of course, and as for business, that is, compliance with water regimes, the absence of peak water consumption, that is, everything should be agreed, of course, and well, simply, as we have already said, these are the measures, cleaning there, in sanitary protection zones, must be maintained, let me remind you that in our country there are more than 2.5 million rivers, the same number of lakes, this system , it is really very sensitive, today there are a huge number of projects for clearing river beds, which, unfortunately, have silted up and we really need to help our rivers convey from this, as you know, an organism like this, that is, from capillaries and yes, that is

in the other direction, and big rivers are signed, in this sense, of course, we won’t make water with you anymore, like people, but we can... reduce thoughtless consumption, russians can calculate their water footprint, online test for an analysis of the costs of this resource was launched in the official rosvodresursov group on the vkk social network. if you answer 20 questions about your household habits, you can find out how sparingly you use water and get tips on reducing consumption. water footprint, there is such a concept, water footprint, it is increasing, water the footprint, and it is growing, has grown together with resources made together with. excellent story, you can go in and see your water footprint, well, speaking of jeans, the production of one pair is about 7,500 liters, but maybe it’s not worth 7,500, i had data that it’s 800 liters, 7,500 water footprint and the whole question is that no matter what it is, maybe you don’t need to buy a second pair of jeans in a week, so that people understand all this

, that’s how many interesting things we learned today, so that they all understand it, but somehow pay attention to it and we need to inform morning rule: wash, turn on the water, brush your teeth, turn off the water, great, great rule, as the song says, but my native country is wide, there are a lot of fields, forests and rivers in it, and it seems that we have a lot of reservoirs, they are forests endless, in fact, water is of course, you need to understand this and treat it with care, scientists talk about the nervousness of the modern climate, sudden low water or flood can happen when? anywhere and anywhere, another opinion, where it’s already dry, it dries up even more, and there, where there is a lot of water, it still remains, this is how it looks in russia. in early august , heavy rains hit the primorsky region, and a state of emergency was introduced in the region. the flow of water washed away entire houses, roads were washed away, bridges were destroyed, dozens of villages were cut off from civilization, thousands of residents

found themselves without communication lights. i was knocked down by the current and swam further across the territory. according to experts, they will be repeated in the future. these phenomena will happen more often and will intensify. you need to be prepared for this. no transfer of water in order to flood control cannot be achieved. this is just a completely absurd idea, because... canals are extremely expensive, if we talk about intercepting water by reservoirs, then yes, this means works , but the risks are great, the damage is enormous, it is necessary to move the population and economic facilities, well, nothing can be done, such is life, in some cases, maybe populated areas can simply be

raised piles, how to make sure that floods do not cause destruction, on the contrary, they help to collect water and replenish this most valuable resource, because we have floods every year, what kind of infrastructure, hydraulic structures are needed, the river - unfortunately, in some banks, built, yes, well, you can’t push it, that is, it’s difficult to do, there are thousand-kilometer dams along which, and in fact, shackling the river in some kind of certainly, the rivers overflow. this is an ordinary story, here is ours, ours, unfortunately, today’s, there are today’s challenges of nature, and in climate change, they require us to adapt to these conditions, and somewhere it is quite likely that the favorite place in which we lived next to a river, it’s just on

today is really dangerous for life, taking into account the phenomena that occur if you return from the far east, for example, to the caucasus, then this is quite regular work on straightening the river beds, well, so that the rivers and let's say, yes in the period of snow melting in the mountains, the rivers fill up very quickly, these are very fast rivers, which in their run can carry away anything there, so our task, yes, is to do it in such a way that this water does not linger anywhere and fast, that is, technology there are such, that is, we know that we can do this somehow. but here , unfortunately, all these decisions are not easy and they are not cheap, that is, these are quite large volumes that require, well, yes... quite a lot of funding. over the past 100 years, the global use of water resources has increased sixfold and continues to increase; according to data , every third inhabitant of the planet is

already deprived of access to drinking water; by 2050, more than 5 billion people will suffer from water deficiency. russia is second after brazil in terms of water volumes resources - 20% of the world's reserves of lake press water. the protection and rational use of the resource is discussed at the highest level. the most important issues are, for example, the exchange and transfer of technologies, in russia, in this sense, quite a wealth of experience has been accumulated, both in the territorial redistribution of runoff, and in the development of irrigation, the development of water treatment systems, water purification and many, for example, the construction and operation of hydroelectric power plants, since the issue of energy generation, water energy is also one of the key factors in economic development on the planet today, it was on all these issues that the discussion was going on, we must understand that , of course, there are regions... entire regions of the world, for example, africa, the middle east and so on, where these problems are much, maybe more acute than in our country, but at the same time, hence the demand and interest

of our partners from these countries in the technologies and experiences that russia has today, so let’s sell as an option, yes, but this is an option that is not accepted by the population, i mean i know from the responses that ours wealth, everything we sell, we sell gas, oil, yes, if we sell timber, if we also sell water, then, but in reality i want to say that it still flows, we have huge reserves of water, huge water reserves, we have nothing to worry about, in this sense we look favorably compared to all other states, we have no risks, and indeed these are expensive projects, as colleagues said today, and financing is required, and if today we are really puzzled at the state level let's develop a green nomy financing in terms of water projects, then this would be a very good help, because these are the forms of public

private partnerships that would work here , it seems to me that we see the potential for investors to invest in water projects, either through the debt market, or through some special financial instruments, after all, is water the new oil? from the point of view of its value, i look at this formula, water, new oil, as a certain value, but not only for sale, water is new oil, i see a lot of meaning in this, it africa, this is the middle east, this is where locally, at the local level, there is no water at all, people simply do not have the opportunity to simply drink it, just drink it in order to survive, this is a big problem that we will need to think about in the future , that is, these are some... also a geopolitical instrument , i completely agree, here, to an outside observer it may seem to an ordinary citizen that nothing depends on them, they do not decide anything, in fact, everything

depends on each person, if each person leads your daily routine, well even some household habits, so correct, for example, when you wash your face you turn on the water, when you wash your hair, you turn off the water, and these habits also depend... but also on your wallet, if you install meters, then this is really a story, when they installed meters on water consumption in houses, yes, this somehow motivated me a little bit, work and i think that we have already talked about our kind of purpose, yes, that is, the purpose of an industrialist, after all, i think it’s efficient. you need to ask yourself more often why, why am i doing this, why am i leaving

garbage, why am i pouring so much water, water is very fragile, in fact such an element, well, like life, it’s a very fragile story, which, unfortunately, can be spoiled very quickly, but it takes a very long time to repair it, water, unlike many resources that russia is rich, an environmentally friendly, valuable resource that is increasingly in demand in the world. water is essentially life itself. our task today is to use it rationally, to learn to manage water flows so that there is enough not only for us, but for our children, our economy, and the entire earth. from this he will be able the whole country will win, and the planet will only be grateful. it was a green transition on the russia 24 tv channel. take care of yourself and nature. colleague, he quit a long time ago, with a sigma of 1,500.56, one evening.

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vladimir putin made a video message on the occasion of the day of reunification of new regions with russia. dear friends, dear citizens of russia. i congratulate you on the day of reunification of the donetsk and lugansk people's republics, zaporozhye and kherson regions with russia.