Drinking water pollution and its impact on the population in the Russian Federation

Abstract

The paper shows the spatio-temporal analysis of changes in quality and safety indicators of drinking water supply systems for the period 2010-2018. It is found that for the period 2010-2018 on the territory of the Russian Federation, the shares of water supply systems (public by 13.11% and non-public by 11.69%), water sources (surface by 11.04% and underground by 13.13%) and facilities for transporting utility and drinking water (water pipelines by 21.27%) that do not meet sanitary epidemiological requirements has decreased. The share of the urban population provided with quality drinking water increased by 0.68%, while the share of rural population decreased by 2.91%. For the period 2010-2018 the increase in the indicator of life expectancy of Russian population from 68.94 to 72.91 years was recorded. It is shown that the most problematic areas are in the North Caucasian and Southern Federal Districts. The total contribution of indicators characterizing the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the territories was 375.2 days (1.03 years). At the same time, the contribution of indicators of the quality and safety of utility and drinking water supply was 9.2 days (2.45% of the group of indicators of sanitary and epidemiological well-being of territories or 0.69% of the entire set of indicators of the environment).