The Role of Water Management Technologies in the Sustainable Development of Water-Deficient Territories

The technical and economic development of Orenburg region, especially its eastern part, is hindered by the shortage of drinking water quality, the widespread processes of pollution, salinization and increased radiation. The regional government has put forward the task of providing the region with drinking water. To solve it, it is proposed to develop and implement new technologies for the region, replenishing water intake reserves by partial accumulation of runoff in floods and protecting water from pollution, salinization and increased radiation, using original barrier technologies. Difficult situation in the economic and drinking water supply of the population has developed in the south-east of the region in the settlement Svetly and in the city Yasny. Water supply here is carried out at the expense of the waters of the Kumak reservoir, where the water does not meet the drinking quality. By draining these volumes of water with the planned underground water intake near the Kumak reservoir, it is possible to provide the population of the settlement Svetly and city Yasny with water of good quality. It is possible to protect the water intake from pollution by creating a complex barrier structure, the effectiveness of which is proved experimentally.