Technical Reports Parts C,D - ICPDR

138 Danube Pollution Reduction Programme – National Review, Ukraine
Limits for water extraction and polluting substances discharge are specified in the permit for
special water use. In case of low water, limit for water extraction could be reduced by specially
authorized bodies without correction of the permit for special water use.
Terms of special water use are established by bodies, which issued the permit for special water use.
Special water use can be short-term one (up to 3 years) or long-term one (three to twenty-five
years).
Term of special water use could be prolonged for the period that does not exceed relevant shortterm
or long-term water use, if necessary. Prolongation of special water use terms by the petition of
interested water users is carried out by the state bodies that issued permit for special water use.
2.5.3. Monitoring
The state water monitoring is conducted with the aim of ensuring collection, processing, storage,
and analysis of the information on the condition of waters, prediction of its changes, and
development of the recommendations for making scientifically substantiated decisions in the field
of water usage and protection and water resources restoration.
Subjects of the state water monitoring are as follows:
surface waters;
natural water bodies (lakes), water courses (rivers, streams);
artificial water bodies (reservoirs, ponds), channels and other water bodies;
groundwater and springs;
internal sea waters and territorial sea; exclusive Ukrainian (marine) economic zone;
sources of water pollution, including wastewater; accidental discharges of liquid products
and wastes; products and material losses in a process of mineral resources extraction
within aquifers of surface waters, internal sea waters, territorial sea waters and exclusive
Ukrainian (marine) economic zone; as well as dumping of wastes, waters of surface
drainage from the agricultural fields, filtration of pollutants from technological water
bodies and reservoirs; and massive growth of the blue-and-green algae;
release of harmful substances from sediments (secondary pollution), and other sources of
pollution, which could be subject to observation.
There are approximately 1.000 sanitary and hygienic and 450 fishery norms of maximum
permissible concentrations (hereinafter referred to as MPC). MPC norms to 420 harmful
combinations have been fixed for bodies of water serving household and drinking purposes. The
monitoring of water resources is regulated by “The provisions describing the State monitoring of
the environment of Ukraine” that were put in force by the enactment of the Cabinet of Ukraine
#785 of August 23, 1993. In accordance with these provisions the monitoring of the Danube basin
water resources is ensured by several State agencies. The State Committee for Hydrometeorology
operates the largest surface water quality-monitoring network. That system has been designed
mainly to study the country’s water resources. It provides the most efficient services to Carpathian
and Crimea Mountains but not to the polluted industrial regions of Ukraine.
Sanitary-epidemiological posts reporting to the Ministry for Health Protection of Ukraine ensure
constant monitoring of the drinking water quality and domestic water quality on specific sites
located along the Danube River and its tributaries. A particular attention is paid by the Ministries to
health protection monitoring system to assess the impact of various water pollutants on the general
public’s health. The Ukrainian State Committee for Water Management has in operation water
monitoring units and receives various data on sewage water effluents transmitted by utilities
through forwarding of filled-out forms #2-TP (water management). Once these data are processed