ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Peculiarities of Statistical Water Quality Assessment in an Industrial Region
 
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Department of Management and Innovations, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Leningradsky Avenue, 49, Moscow 115612, Russia
 
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Institute of Regional Economics and Inter-Budgetary Relations, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Leningradsky Avenue, 49, Moscow 125993, Russia
 
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Department of Physical and Socio-Economic Geography, National Research Mordovia State University, Bolshevitskaya Str., 68/1, Saransk 430005, Russia
 
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Department of Demographic and Migration Policy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University), Vernadsky Avenue, 76, Moscow 119454, Russia
 
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Laboratory of International Demographic Research, Institute for Demographic Research FCTAS RAS (IDR FCTAC RAS), Fotieva Str., 6, Moscow 119333, Russia
 
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Department of Corporate Finance and Corporate Management, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Leningradsky Avenue, 49, Moscow 125993, Russia
 
 
Submission date: 2022-08-26
 
 
Final revision date: 2022-10-10
 
 
Acceptance date: 2022-10-21
 
 
Online publication date: 2022-12-23
 
 
Publication date: 2023-01-12
 
 
Corresponding author
Svetlana Makar   

Institute of Regional Economics and Inter-Budgetary Relations, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Leningradsky Avenue, 49, 125993, Moscow, Russia
 
 
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2023;32(1):579-586
 
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The aim of the work is to investigate water quality in the industrial region of the Ural (Russia) according to the main parameters. The study was conducted in 2021 in 10 cities of the Sverdlovsk region. Water samples were taken from artesian wells and centralized water supply systems. Water samples were tested for pH value, hardness, mineralization, nitrate concentration, and the content of heavy metals (voltammetry method). A high content of nitrates was established for 2 towns: Verkhnyaya Pyshma (p≤0.05 to the norm) and Degtyarsk (3 times more than the norm, p≤0.01). In terms of cadmium concentration, water samples from Nizhny Tagil and Degtyarsk are 8 times the norm (p≤0.01), from Bogdanovich - 4 times (p≤0.05), from Serov - 6 times (p≤0.01), from Kamensk-Uralsky - 10 times (p≤0.001). In terms of lead concentration, samples from 5 cities are 1.2-1.5 times higher than the norm (p≤0.05), from Serov - 7 times higher (p≤0.01), and from Yekaterinburg - 2.5 times higher (p≤0.05). Most (6 of 10) cities have shown high levels of water pollution by heavy metals.
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