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On the initiative of their own the students
of the faculty of natural science and the department of journalism
under Khujand State University named after academician B.
Ghafurov decided to conduct exploration of our drinking water
sources in Northern Tajikistan. It was ascertained that the
ecologically purest water is in the spring of Shahrisan area;
this district being a purveyor for “Obi Zulol” mineral water.
The Shirinsoy and the Oksoo wells in Nov district are in the
mostly deplorable state.
We traveled over many areas of Northern Tajikistan analyzing
different properties of water in the range from composition
to smelt. We cleared out that the “Obanbor” and the “
Soy” wells of Istaravshan have the most unpleasant smelt.
According to GOST 284-82 (state standard) you can use water
with the smelt up to the second category. We may say that
the residents of the Right Bank and center of Khujand, Kairakkoom,
Shahristan, Asht and Jabborrasulov districts have luck, their
sources are without smelt. But as for the waters of Isfara,
Ovchi-Qalacha, in the Syr-Darya and Oksoo rivers, they have
a smelt of the first category, that is the first symptom of
different diseases our doctors speak every now and then.
We unremittingly toll the bell informing about traditional
diseases of Sughdians - goiter, affected kidneys, bad teeth
and gums. At the same time we take it easy when we hear that
dissolving substances (DSs) exceeding the admissible norm
are discovered in the right bank part of Khujand, the Shirinsoo
in Nov district, on the territory of Navgilem jamoat, Isfara
district. The use of this water is undesirable, as according
to state standard the amount of the substances in question
in water must not exceed 1000 milligrams per a liter.
People living in our viloyat often complain of hard water.
Our friends from Dushanbe, Gharm, Pamir are often in attendance
here. All of them unanimously say about the bad taste of our
water, and to express it more precisely, about its tastelessness.
Unfortunately, it’s a fact. All this should be attributed
to the hardness of our water, which should not exceed 7 mg.
- eq/l. But in the Right Bank part of Khujand, in Navgilem
this norm is exceeded twice! This water causes stones in kidneys.
The explorations done by the students were conducted pursuing
one aim more - definition of the amount of sediments, according
to state standards they should not exceed 500 mg per a liter.
“Obi Zulol” water turned out to be the best; it doesn’t contain
sediments, which are equal to 000. In other waters sediments
are insignificant, being admissible by the norm. Excess is
discovered in the Aksoo and the Shirinsoo sources, Nov district.
To be honest, after the work being done we were assailed with
white envy in regard to our friends from Shahristan and Ponghoz,
Asht district, who had enjoyed ecologically pure water for
all their lifetime.
Prognostications of experts on water resources are inconsolable:
in our century wars for access to water are quite probable
in Africa, they may fight for water just as now they fight
for oil. Already now the third of the population on the planet
lives under the conditions of acute water deficiency. And
in 25 years about 8 billion people will become victims of
water crisis. The problem of pure water is so burning that
UNO supported the initiative of RT president Emomali Rahmonov
and announced 2003 as the International Year of pure water.
By the way, the day of Navruz - March 22 is marked now as
the World day of water. Experts consider that in order to
survive the world needs “water saving revolution” and new
technologies which will help to economize water. But for the
time being 6 thousand people, children in developing countries
predominantly, perish because of water not responding to sanitary
norms. The team of UNO experts headed by Nitin Desay (department
on environmental protection) reports 25 thousand people more
to be dying annually having caught alive creatures in contagious
waters.
Great thanks to Allah, we are not threatened by it yet. But
there is a danger of diseases caused by the quality of water.
Our parents left a good heritage for us - reservoirs, canals,
agent releasers - which afforded us to reclaim thousand hectares
of lands in order future generations were provided with foodstuffs.
May be, today’s young people, students, as prospective specialists,
should cogitate over creating cheap efficacious technologies
on making water softer, purifying it, in order it responded
to world standards? It ought to be done for the benefit of
all of us.
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