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Young Tatarstan residents aged 3 to 18 can participate in the All-Russian Children's Painting Competition "Colorful Drops". The goal is to popularize ideas of water conservation and respect for water resources among preschool children, schoolchildren, their parents and the pedagogical community.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation has opened reception of works for a photo contest "Water of Russia". Submission of applications for a photo contest dedicated to rivers, lakes and other water objects of our country will last until October 6, 2018.

A traditional August eco-lesson was held today on the basis of the Children's Railway in Kazan. 30 children from the rehabilitation centers "Aprel" and "Solnechnyi", wards of the Alpari charitable foundation went on a journey from the Izumrudnyi to Molodezhnaya station and back. Here, in the open air, they learned a lot about the nature of their native land, competitions, games and ecological experiments were held for them.

Today, reception of citizens took place in the administration building of the Mamadyshskiy district. The issues of installation of container sites, improvement of the city lake, deepening of the riverbed of the Vyatka river, monitoring of water objects, environmental education, activities of non-profit organizations, etc. were considered.

2,800 square meters of land allocated for household waste and garbage. During the raid inspectors of the South-Eastern Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan revealed the fact that an illegal landfill was organized in 700 meters from one of the villages on the territory of Almetyevskiy district.

Under the "People's control" the environmentalists considered 1037 messages, - 922 notifications via WhatsApp and Telegram communication channels. 1781 applications were accepted at personal receptions of citizens and through the reception of the Ministry.

The fourth republican contest "School Eco Patrol" will finish on August 31. During the contest period in the academic year 2017-2018, the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan accepted 7,320 applications.

The next, the fifth republican contest "School Eco Patrol" starts tomorrow.

Today in Nizhnekamsk an environmental campaign was held to clean the bottom and coastal territory of the Karakul Lake. Its participants: members of the Tatarstan branch of the Russian Geographical Society and the city administration, employees of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, volunteers and eco-activists - divided into teams and competed in the volume of collected garbage.

Licensing of wells, assembly and processing of waste. These and other environmental issues were raised today at the reception of citizens in the Atninskiy district.

Construction waste and scrap of ferrous metals, boxes and polyethylene - a spontaneous waste loading on the territory of the trade organization was revealed by specialists of the Central Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan.