Technical Reports Parts C,D - ICPDR

Technical Reports – Part D: Water Environmental Engineering 139
and finalized the State Committee for Water Management submits the corresponding informations
to the Ministry for Statistics of Ukraine in the form of quantified pollution performance for towns,
regions etc.
The Ukrainian Ministry for Agricultural Produce operates monitoring units that measure the
content of pesticide and nitric combinations in surface water.
The Ministry for Environmental Protection and Nuclear Safety of Ukraine is not able to ensure
regular monitoring of the quality of water in the Danube basin and uses mainly the informations
provided by the State Committee for Hydrometeorology and by Ministry of Health Protection of
Ukraine. Local representatives of the Ministry for Environmental Protection and Nuclear Safety of
Ukraine perform only random effluent sampling to check out the compliance with environmental
regulations. Such verification envisages sampling 500 meters downstream the point, where
effluents are released. It enables to determine “possible dissolution” of effluents, which is
necessary to calculate content limitations. The inspection departments to the Ministry for
Environmental Protection and Nuclear Safety of Ukraine perform analyses of water samples
downstream releasing points to identify eventual infractions and to apply civil penalties.
The other agencies responsible for conducting the state water monitoring include the State
Committee on Geology and Mineral Resources (SCGMR), the State Committee for Housing and
Communal Services (SCHCS), their local authorities, as well as organizations that pertain to the
regulative sphere of the above mentioned ministries and state agencies.
The National Space Agency of Ukraine (NSAU) provides the agencies conducting the state water
monitoring with the available historical and up-to-date aero-cosmic information from the remote
gauging of the territory of Ukraine.
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.
The state water monitoring is conducted in terms of water quantity and quality.
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.
The following water objects in Ukrainian surface should be monitored:
water bodies, which are recipients for wastewater from large towns
wastewater discharges from separate industrial facilities
water area used for fishing