AccScience Publishing / AJWEP / Volume 16 / Issue 4 / DOI: 10.3233/AJW190043
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Impact of Anthropogenic Factors on Runoff Formation in the Southern Urals

Larisa R. Zagitova1* Nail S. Minigazimov1 lnara T. Khaidarshina2 Damir N. Kutliyarov3 Amir N. Kutliyarov3
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1 Department of Nature Arrangement, Building and Hydraulics, Federal State Budgetary Educational Establishment of Higher Education, Bashkir State Agrarian University, Ufa, 50-letia Octyabrya str., 34, 450059, Russian Federation
2 Department of Environmental Engineering, Construction and Hydraulics, Federal State Budgetary Educational Establishment of Higher Education, Bashkir State Agrarian University Ufa, 50-letia Octyabrya str., 34, 450059, Russian Federation
3 2 Department of Land Management, Federal State Budgetary Educational Establishment of Higher Education Bashkir State Agrarian University, Ufa, 50-letia Octyabrya str., 34, 450059, Russian Federation
AJWEP 2019, 16(4), 7–15; https://doi.org/10.3233/AJW190043
Submitted: 26 July 2019 | Revised: 6 August 2019 | Accepted: 6 August 2019 | Published: 6 November 2019
© 2019 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

A runoff is a multi-factor phenomenon being of great importance in the life of humans, animals and  plants. Rivers are known to meet the needs of biota and economic activity in fresh water. A channel runoff  represents constantly replenished resources of self-purification capacity. This makes it almost the only source that  provides the needs of industry, agriculture as well as housing and public utility sector in water of the required  quality. The ecological situation of the territory and the extent to which natural complexes are changed due to the  increased technogenic processes resulting in the depletion of the channel runoff and transformation of its regime,  depend on the state of water bodies

This paper presents the study of the runoff formation factors and the role of economic activities in changing  the water volume of rivers. Statistical methods and data on human activities within river basins were used in  establishing the starting point of changes in the hydrological characteristics and determining the degree of the  runoff change. Rivers with disrupted runoff regime were identified; changes in annual and seasonal runoff were  assessed. The role of hydraulic engineering construction and irrigation reclamation facilities in the dynamics of  hydrologic processes as the main factors of changes in the water volume of river systems was grounded. The  study results can be used in water management calculations to restore runoff values, in construction of economic  facilities in catchments and riverbeds, as well as in adjustment of water management circuits for industrial  enterprises and settlements.

Keywords
Runoff
economic activity
spring flooding
summer low-water period
winter low-water period
disrupted homogeneity of runoff series
Conflict of interest
The authors declare they have no competing interests.
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