Availability of Water in the Russian Federation under Global Climate Warming

B. M. Kizyaev¹ and S. D. Isaeva²*
Translated by B. Alekseev

Kostyakov All-Russia Research Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Amelioration, Moscow, Russia

Correspondence to: е-mail: ¹contact@vniigim.ru; ²isaevasofia@gmail.com

*RAS Academician Boris Mikhailovich Kizyaev is Director of the Kostyakov All-Russia Research Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Amelioration (VNIIGiM). Sofiya Davidovna Isaeva, Dr. Sci. (Eng.), is Chief Researcher in the Department of Water Use and Economics, VNIIGiM.

Received 8 March, 2016

Abstract—The main problems of the use of water resources in Russia against the backdrop of global climate warming are considered. An especially complex situation is developing in the southern part of European Russia and in western Siberia, which are experiencing a deficit of water resources. Possible trends in improving water availability in the regions are determined, as are ways of their implementation, taking into account recent achievements in science.

Keywords: subsurface waters, surface waters, global climate warming, deficit of water resources, improvement in water availability.

DOI: 10.1134/S1019331616050051