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As part of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) regional project entitled “Strategic Action Programme (SAP) for the Dnipro River Basin and Development of SAP Implementation Mechanisms”, methodology was developed for the identification and analysis of pollution sources (“Hot Spots”) in the Dnipro River Basin. The goal of the Strategic Action Programme is to facilitate the reduction of transboundary pollution in the Dnipro River basin and thereby contribute to the protection of territorial and international waters, in other words, the Black Sea.
Similarly with most river basins throughout the world, which are located in densely populated areas, there are thousands of pollution sources in the basin of the Dnipro River. The goal of this document is the identification and prioritization of the major sources of pollution based on their characteristics and impact on the environment.
The sources of pollution (referred herein as Hot Spots) are point sources of pollution, such as industrial and municipal effluents as well as non-point sources of pollution, such as runoff from agricultural lands and inhabited localities. All of them are sources of risk for human health and contribute to the deterioration of the ecological situation, including biodiversity sensitive areas.
This report gives an analysis of the situation for the subjects of the Russian Federation located within the territory of the Dnipro River basin, in particular Smolenskaya, Brianskaya, and Kurskaya oblasts as well, in part, Belgorodskaya, Kaluzhskaya, and Orlovskaya oblasts in relation to the identification and analysis of pollution sources in the Dnipro River basin.
