Improvement of mechanisms for managing the ecological state of watercourses in the urban area

Abstract

Abstract The basis of rational management of water resources quality on the territory of cities is to obtain complete and reliable information, reflecting the state of water bodies. This becomes possible only if the monitoring network is properly organized and balanced from an ecological and economic point of view. The fulfillment of this requirement makes it possible not only to obtain the data, necessary to assess current state of water resources, to make forecasts of changes in the qualitative indicators of river runoff, taking into account water availability of the year, level of anthropogenic load, but also in some cases to localize areas, where unauthorized discharges of pollutants are practised. In the course of this study, it was found that the monitoring network of observations of hydrochemical, biogenic indicators and physical properties of water within the boundaries of the Simferopol city district is organized irrationally. In order to increase ecological and economic efficiency of its functioning, it is advisable for monitoring organizations to agree on a list of monitored indicators, the number and location of observation posts, as well as to monitor the impact of the urban environment on the Slavyanka river.