Open AccessOpportunities for the drinking water resources‘ export-oriented commercialization as a potential element of the economic framework in mountainous areas
Author(s) -
R O Kalov,
D D Kiloev,
R S Elmurzaev
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/1083/1/012059
Subject(s) - groundwater , bottling line , hydrogeology , environmental science , aquifer , water resource management , water balance , natural resource , water table , water resources , environmental protection , hydrology (agriculture) , geography , geology , ecology , geotechnical engineering , archaeology , bottle , biology
The predicted reserves of fresh groundwater in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) reach 7200 thousand m 3 /day, which is 31.2% of similar resources in the North Caucasus Federal District, ranking first in the region. In terms of mineralization in general, groundwater in the KBR belongs to the class of “fresh groundwater” in terms of chemical composition they are classified as “drinking” in terms of total hardness - to “moderately hard water”. Water does not contain significant concentrations of heavy metals and inorganic nitrogen compounds. However, the use of the indicated potential is limited only to the creation of local lines for bottling water with a small capacity, mainly focused on the republican and regional markets of Russia. The purpose of this study is to substantiate the hypothesis about the sufficient resources‘ availability of hydrogeological materials suitable for industrial production and bottling as ecologically clean drinking water. Within the framework of the designated goal, the following tasks were solved: - search for mountain landscapes, in the first approximation localizing the balance reserves of fresh groundwater; - environmental monitoring of the sites previously designated as favorable for the drinking water extraction; - the productive aquifers‘ assessment nature and the conditions of their natural protection from pollution; - identification of natural components that maintain the balance of groundwater and factors of its change over time; - establishing the specifics of groundwater discharge and the dynamics of regime-forming processes in the vertical zoning conditions in the study area.