Hygienic assessment of drinking water supply of the population of the Russian Federation: problems and the way their rational decision

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Introduction. The issues of the water quality and sanitary protection of water bodies in the Russian Federation are constantly in the zone of increased scientific and practical attention.

The purpose of the work is a hygienic assessment and determination of ways to improve the drinking water supply of the population in the Russian Federation.

Materials and methods. Analysis of materials from annual state reports on the state of sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population, data literature, dissertation, and own researches, development of proposals for improving the drinking water supply of the population.

Results. A hygienic assessment of the current state of the water supply of the population is presented in terms of the compliance of water with the main criteria, indicators, and regulatory parameters of the water and sanitary legislation of the country is presented. Updated problems and measures to improve the quality of water sources and water used for household and drinking purposes are noted. The problematic issues of improving federal laws and technical regulations of the Eurasian Economic Union in the field of providing the population with high-quality drinking water are outlined. The terminological, conceptual and essential aspects of the assessment of drinking water as the main food product in terms of the mass consumption of the population are considered.

Conclusion. Despite the high level of domestic water legislation, it is necessary to constantly improve it, understanding that water, on the one hand, is the only cleaning liquid on the planet, which is why it is the accumulator of all pollution entering the environment, and, on the other hand, is the most significant according to the average daily mass of consumption, a food product that affects health to the extent that a person spoils it.

Compliance with ethical standards. Research does not require the submission of a biomedical ethics committee opinion or other documents.

Contribution:
Rakhinanin Yu.A. — generation of the idea of research, carrying out search and analytical work, text writing.
Onishchenko G.G. — design of the research, text editing.
All authors are responsible for the integrity of all parts of the manuscript and approval of the manuscript final version.

Conflict of interest. The authors declare no conflict of interest. 

Acknowledgement. The study had no sponsorship. 

Received: August 15, 2022 / Accepted: October 3, 2022 / Published: October 23, 2022 

About the authors

Yuri A. Rakhmanin

Centre for Strategic Planning of FMBA of Russia

Author for correspondence.
Email: awme@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2067-8014

MD, PhD, DSci., chief researcher of the Centre for Strategic Planning and Management of Biomedical Health Risks of the Federal Medical Biological Agency of Russia, Moscow, 119121, Russian Federation.

e-mail: awme@mail.ru

Russian Federation

Gennadiy G. Onishchenko

I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University)

Email: noemail@neicon.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0135-7258
Russian Federation

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