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The water object was “privatized” by an individual entrepreneur in the Almetyevskiy district. Kommersant carried out water intake and, at the same time, discharged untreated sewage. Environmentalists discovered a pier on the Murat River during a raid check. SIAK specialists took a sample of the flowing liquid - the phosphates exceed 56.1 times, ammonium levels - 9.8 times, nitrites - 7.8 times. On this fact, an administrative protocol was drawn up against the guilty person. Regulations on elimination of violations were issued.

On the eve of the Great Russian River Day celebrations throughout Russia, the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan established a schedule for holding Saturday voluntary cleanup days in municipal districts, through which small rivers flow, needing to be cleaned.

14,668 people took part in it. In total, 798 cubic meters of garbage were scavenged.

400 participants - volunteers and eco-volunteers - gathered today on the territory of the Admiralteiskaya sloboda, in the coastal zone of the Volga. The event is organized by the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Department of the Russian Geographical Society in the Republic of Tatarstan.

Today within the framework of the International Scientific and Industrial Forum “Great Rivers”,  the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, Aleksandr Shadrikov, made a report on the use of geographic information systems to ensure the environmental safety of the republic in Nizhny Novgorod.

Schoolchildren from grades 1 to 8 of the Usalinskaya school in Mamadyshskiy district gathered near the Delpar spring. Here on the nature within the framework of “EcoSpring-2019” an ecological occupation took place. Employees of the Prikamskiy Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan told about the nature of Tatarstan and how to preserve the environment. To consolidate the knowledge, the children together with the teachers played the board game “Favorable Ecological Habits” and carried out practical tasks.

The role of green space in our lives is difficult to overestimate. In the framework of “EcoSpring - 2019”, employees of the Zakamskiy Territorial Administration together with the State Public Institution “Nizhnekamskiy Forest District” organized a Saturday voluntary cleanup day on planting trees. Within an hour, more than 100 seedlings were planted.

All-Russian Youth Public Organization “Russian Union of Rural Youth” traditionally in 2019 holds the All-Russian competition to identify public opinion leaders among young people in rural areas. The competition is held with the support of the Federation Council Committee on Agrarian and Food Policy and Environmental Management.

In the framework of the sanitary-ecological bimonthly period, experts of the Prikamskiy Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan, together with the staff of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of Elabuzhskiy district, revealed violations of land legislation. On the Moscow-Ufa highway, unauthorized disposal of production and consumption wastes in the form of unpolluted polyethylene was established, on the total area of ​​95 square meters and the fact of wastewater discharge without treatment on the terrain was revealed. To date, the culprit is eliminating the landfill.

Within the framework of “EcoSpring-2019”, students of the Nizhnekamsk College of KIU, armed with brush cutters and shovels, carried out sanitary cleaning of the territory: removed fallen trees, cleared the trails from debris. Work was also done on gardening - trees and shrubs were planted, and flowerbeds were renewed. Together with the students, employees of the Zakamskiy Territorial Administration of the Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan took an active part in the cleanup.

Start to the 21st International Scientific and Industrial Forum “Great Rivers” was given today in Nizhny Novgorod. The exhibition and congress site gathered experts in the field of ecology, energy and hydrological safety, environmental education. The leading topic of the 21st Forum will be “Sustainable development of regions in the basins of great rivers”. Experts discuss the implementation of the federal priority project “Improvement of the Volga”.