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Russia accuses China of pollution of border rivers


According to the account of the accounting chamber, from which the RBC website got acquainted, as part of control activities in 2020–2023 water samples were taken at eight points on the border of Russia with China, as well as in four points located in the lower run of the Argun, USSURI and Sungacz rivers.

In addition, specialists took samples in three points in the lower gear of the Onon, Kura and Uldz-Gol rivers at the border with Mongolia. Studies have shown that in none of the examined water facilities in the coastal country [w jednostce administracyjnej Federacji Rosyjskiej w Dalekowschodnim Okręgu Federalnym ze stolicą we Władywostoku] Water did not meet the “conditionally clean” norm. She was awarded the categories: “poorly polluted”, “polluted”, “very polluted”, “dirty” and “very dirty”. In addition, the results of monitoring in the Chabarian country showed exceeding the permissible concentrations of pollutants in all samples taken.

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The account of the accounting chamber indicates that one of the causes of river pollution is the discharge of unpaid or insufficiently cleaned sewage from the “territory of neighboring countries”. As the Russian ministry calculated, in the last five years the number of objects polluting the Amur River has increased by 21.6 percent. At the same time, according to Rosprinadzor's information, Russia does not cooperate with neighbors in the scope of determining and repairing damage caused to cross -border water, as well as preventing negative impact on water objects.

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