Potential Hydrological Restrictions on Water Use in the Basins of Rivers Flowing into Russian Arctic Seas

• Published in: GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY
• Main Authors: Dmitriy Magritsky V., Natalia Frolova L., Olga Pakhomova M.
• Other Authors: This study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project no. 18-05-60021-Arctic Study on water quality was done within RFBR project 18-05-60219.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Russian Geographical Society 2020
• Subjects: Russian Arctic Region;water consumption;wastewaters;water-management system;rivers;hydrological restrictions on water use; Arctic; Murmansk; Kolyma; dvina; kolyma river; lena river; Murmansk Oblast; nenets; Pechora; Polarforschung; Yamalo Nenets
• Online Access: https://ges.rgo.ru/jour/article/view/1155; https://doi.org/10.24057/2071-9388-2019-59

Water consumption has been evaluated for the basins of the rivers flowing into the Arctic seas of the Russian Federation and, separately, for the Arctic zone of Russia (AZR). Long-term dynamics of the major characteristics of water consumption are given for the period from the 1980s to 2017 along wi...