Ecological aspects of environmental protection in designing reservoirs

Conclusion

The state of the ecosystems of water objects (both rivers and lakes) is determined not only by their hydrological and other parameters but primarily by the method of dealing with them, i.e., method of management.

Under present-day conditions, i.e., in the established system of water use and at the present level of the anthropogenic load, neither a river nor a lake, no matter what primal purity they originally had, can withstand the powerful pressure of pollutants in the case of maintaining in the future the utilitarian and unsound principle of using water objects as recipients of wastewaters and other pollutants.