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Black water, dead fish. Since the beginning of August, residents in the regions have reported contamination of dozens of bodies of water.

A month ago due to flooding got dirty the Tura River in the Tyumen regionThe banks were littered with dead fish, the treatment facilities failed, and the water coming into the water supply was unfit even for washing floors. NeMoskva counted the number of reports of water pollution received from other regions since the beginning of the month. The number was at least ten. 

Only in recent days have reports emerged of river pollution. Forest Tambov in Rasskazovo and Mazovka River in the Tambov regionIn the first case, the river was poisoned by an industrial enterprise; in the second, the cause has not yet been determined, but the reservoir took on a dark hue, and an oily film appeared on the surface. 

Two days ago, pollution was reported. Stalin's Pond in Saratov и Volgotnya River in the Rybinsk region Yaroslavl regionIn Stalin's Pond, dead fish covered the shore, and the Volga River was filled with dead fish from bank to bank. 

"I've never seen anything like this in my life. There's speculation that the sewage system has been backed up; there are houses all along the creek. They're building composting toilets on the bank, and when it rains, everything flows into the river. No one talks about what's going on there."“—one of the local residents suggested. 

For Lake Kirpichka in Omsk same picture: dark water, chemical smell, dead fish, and dead ducks. 

The sewage is dumped into the Dubyanka River (flows into the Vozha, the Vozha into the Oka) in the Rybnovsky district Ryazan region: eyewitnesses noticed hoses through which Vodokanal Plus drains wastewater. In April, the organization was issued a presentation for the same discharge, but the Vodokanal management did not pay attention to it. 

At the beginning of the month, it became known about pollution and death of fish in Tyumen Lake Krugloe, Lena River in Yakutia, Gnilusha River in the Moscow region, Ushakovka River in Irkutsk

According to simple calculations, every one or two days in Russia over the past two weeks, one body of water was polluted in one way or another.

According to Roshydromet, recorded annually 2400 to 2760 cases pollution of rivers and lakes in Russian regions. 

Photos, videos: "It happened in Rybinsk" (VK), ERA (VK), ShakhaLife


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