The publication brought together an international team of authors from Russia, China, Brazil, India and South Africa. One of the chapters - Paths to Clean Water Under Rapidly Changing Environment - was prepared by Natalia Guseva, Head of the Division for Geology, and Oleg Savichev, Professor at the Division for Geology.
"Our study aims to analyze the current situation with water pollution in the Russian Federation, including an overview of water resources, chemical composition and quality of surface and groundwater. In addition, we considered problems related to water pollution, including, for example, eutrophication of water bodies (saturation of water bodies with biogenic elements accompanied by an increase in biological productivity of water basins - ed.note), waterlogging, permafrost landscape transformation, point and diffuse sources of pollution. We also describe possible ways to solve these problems with the help of engineering technologies and management methods. Another theme of the chapter was the change in water quality caused by the rapidly changing environment and related to the ongoing water resources protection and management. In general, the study provides a thorough overview of the situation with water conservation, ecology and the main problems that have developed in our country at the beginning of the XXI century," says Natalia Guseva.
Other authors of the study include representatives of the University of Hohai, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Durban University of Technology, and National Technological University Durgapur.
Other topics covered in the monograph include a critical assessment of the groundwater overflow zone for sustainable management in northeast India, a review of water resources in China, a photocatalyst study for removal of organic pollutants from the water of the Damodar River in India, an integrated river restoration protocol, sustainable water management using the example of South Africa, and others.