Open AccessWater Management in the Republic of Karelia: the Current State and Dynamics
Author(s) -
A.V. Litvinenko,
Ю А Литвинова,
Nikolai Filatov,
Bogdanova
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
vodnoe hozâjstvo rossii: problemy, tehnologii, upravlenie/vodnoe hozâjstvo rossii : problemy, tehnologii, upravlenie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2686-8253
pISSN - 1999-4508
DOI - 10.35567/1999-4508-2019-2-3
Subject(s) - consumption (sociology) , agriculture , water resources , current (fluid) , water use , water consumption , farm water , water body , environmental science , agricultural economics , business , water resource management , water conservation , economics , geography , ecology , environmental engineering , oceanography , social science , archaeology , sociology , biology , geology
The article, based on the statistical information analysis, describes the water economy of Karelia (water consumption and water disposal), their current state and dynamics for the period from 1970 to 2015 in conjunction with the socio-economic conditions of the Republic development. The volumes of water use for different water consumers (industry, household, fishery and agriculture) are estimated and the specifics of their variations are found. It is shown that the industry continues to be the main water consumer in the region. We have established that the share of household consumption in the overall structure of water consumption has been constantly increasing over the past 30 years, and agricultural water consumption has been continuously decreasing and tending to zero. We specified annual increase in the use of water for fisheries (store-pond trout farming). Some problems of quantitative accounting of water resources use and generalization of primary information have been discussed.