Chechnya’s reservoir threatened with water pollutionTimur Aliyev, North Caucasus - Chechnya may eventually end up without safe drinking water, stated Ilyas Tokayev, head of the Geology and Mining Division of Chechnya’s Bureau of Natural Resources.
The reason for this danger, he states, is that an oil deposit has formed beneath the ground surface in Grozny.
No real threat is as yet imminent; however, it could emerge at any given time because this deposit is now slowly moving toward the Starosunzhensky reservoir, which provides drinking water for Grozny.
Abdulkasim Khamadov of Chechen authority for environmental supervision believes that, in general, suitable drinking water does not exist in the country today. "Waste products from the petrochemical refineries have impregnated the ground up to 17 meters in depth, which is causing severe pollution of subsoil water."
According to him, the presence of heavy metal, e.g. copper, nitrogen, manganese, and aluminum, was discovered in nearly all the main rivers throughout the republic such as in the Sunzha, Terek and Argun.
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