WATER POTENTIAL OF VOLGOGRAD OBLAST AND ITS MODERN CHANGES
https://doi.org/10.1134/S2587556618040040
Abstract
Methodological approaches to assessing the water potential of the territory, its resource and ecological components, are proposed and tested on the case study of Volgograd oblast. Data are presented on its main elements: local river runoff and inflow of river water from neighboring areas, surface and groundwater resources. The size and structure of its water-resource potential of Volgograd oblast is estimated. The current trends in the influence of water management, agricultural activities and climate on water resources are revealed. A hydroecological assessment of their changes is given. It is shown that the oblast has a significant potential for further use of its water resources, if not to consider the need in irrigation of the neighboring Astrakhan and Rostov oblasts by the Volga and Don waters. Taking into account the low quality of river waters, the water potential of Volgograd oblast can be judged as largely exhausted. The specifics of the current hydroecological situation are characterized.
About the Author
S. V. Dolgov
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences.
Russian Federation
Moscow.
Russian Federation
Moscow.
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- In comparison with the neighboring regions and Russia as a whole, Volgograd Oblast has a significant potential for further use of its surface and groundwater resources.
- Under the influence of climatic factors, surface slope runoff is reducing.
- Due to the increased by 25–40% infiltration of atmospheric precipitation during the cold season (including the spring flood period), the soil moisture resources increase before the beginning of the growing season, which creates a potential for higher yields.
- Structural changes in water balance of the river watersheds contribute to the reduction of unevenness of the intraannual distribution of river flow.
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Dolgov S.V. WATER POTENTIAL OF VOLGOGRAD OBLAST AND ITS MODERN CHANGES. Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Geograficheskaya. 2018;(4):77-88. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.1134/S2587556618040040
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