On the legal problems occurring when implementing the principle of use of natural resources against interest payments and compensation for environmental damage as applied to water objects

Abstract

The current water conservation legislation fails to correspond to the present-day situation. For example, wastewater pollution through sewage collection system is not considered to be a negative factor affecting the environment. Meanwhile sewage treatment facilities provided by the Water and Waste Water Services are to collect and treat domestic wastewater rather than industrial wastewater. In terms of industrial wastewater these facilities should cover the mechanisms and process specially designed to treat the waste within the production process. It is necessary to claim the industrial factories and other users of the wastewater treatment services as environmental contaminants and to charge them for the damage to the water objects. The changes in the legislation should aim to prevent environmental pollution, to reveal its ultimate reasons and guilty party. Besides, it is necessary to protect the charges for wastewater pollution from «dissipation» in the budget, to guarantee the use of the funds for intended purpose to finance the activities to protect the water objects. Implementation of these principles is possible within the Federal special purpose program «Clean water».

Keywords:

pollutants, water objects, sewage treatment facilities provided by the Water and Waste Water Services, negative influence on the environment, wastewater treatment within the production process, federal ecological fund, federal program «Clean water»