Rosprirodnadzor named the regions in which wastewater is not treated

MOSCOW, Aug 10. Wastewater enters the environment without treatment in Crimea, Sevastopol, Dagestan, Primorsky Territory and Kabardino-Balkaria, follows from the report of the head of Rosprirodnadzor Svetlana Radionova. — Ed.) Is almost completely absent, in 13 regions less than 1% is purified, in 20 regions the percentage of purification does not exceed 10%, «Radionova said. includes Crimea, Sevastopol, Dagestan, Primorsky Krai and Kabardino-Balkaria. Radionova clarified that at present the old treatment facilities have exhausted their resource and need to be updated. Near Volgograd, when cleaning a water well, four people died. She also noted that if a water body is already polluted upstream, then the enterprise actually has the right to discharge water of any quality into it. «It is much easier for them to pay for the excess of the standard than to build treatment facilities at their home. This leads to re-pollution, and we will have worse and worse quality of the water body,» added Radionova.