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The progress of a large-scale project to clear the Melekeski riverbed in Naberezhnye Chelny was inspected by Ilnur Nasretdinov, Deputy Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan, and Mars Valiev, Director of the NPO Geocenter of the Republic of Tatarstan. The event is being implemented within the framework of the federal project "Water of Russia" of the national project "Environmental Well-being".

Experts from the VTsIOM Analytical Center, together with the Federal Agency for Water Resources, summed up the results of a survey of Russians on the topic of water resources. According to the respondents, the topic of water is among the top 3 most pressing environmental issues, along with air quality and waste. The issues of the state of water bodies are by a wide margin ahead of the problem of forest depletion.