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Tendencies of long-term changes in water quality of water bodies in the South of Russia

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Based on analyzing long-term (1968–2010) national monitoring data from Rosgidromet and other agencies as well as on research results for the Lower-Don and Kuban’ river basins, we identified observation posts on water bodies with a stably high pollution level and gave a characterization of the spatiotemporal tendencies of its changes. Long-term changes in water quality are exemplified by an alternation of periods of increasing and declining pollution; its level showed a decrease from the period 1980–1990 to the end of the last decade.

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    A. M. Nikanorov & T. A. Khoruzhaya

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Original Russian Text © A.M. Nikanorov, T.A. Khoruzhaya, 2012, published in Geography and Natural Resources, 2012, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 40–45.

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Nikanorov, A.M., Khoruzhaya, T.A. Tendencies of long-term changes in water quality of water bodies in the South of Russia. Geogr. Nat. Resour. 33, 125–130 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1875372812020047

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