Preparation of Surface and Groundwater for Drinking Water Supply of Villages in the Arctic Zone

Abstract

The new Arctic development strategy until 2035 consolidates Russia's national interests in the Arctic: ensuring sovereignty and territorial integrity, preserving the Arctic ecosystem, protecting the territory of indigenous peoples, preserving the Arctic as a territory of the world, as well as a high standard of living and well-being of Russian citizens living in the Arctic zone. Improving the living environment of northern settlements, developing industrial production, deploying of the Northern Sea Route, and protecting the northern borders of Russia requires a reliable, uninterrupted year-round supply of populated places and industrial facilities with water of adequate quality and in sufficient quantities. The uneven distribution of villages and industrial enterprises over the vast territory of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation, for the most part, their remoteness from centralized water and energy supply systems dictates its requirements and features of the organization of water supply. The article presents a new technological scheme of drinking water preparation at modular water treatment plants in the Far North, as well as the results of a study of the pilot plant in production conditions in Yakutia.