Topic: Ensuring Access to Potable Water
Country: Russia
Delegate Name: Avneet Deol
School: Forest Hills Eastern High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Russia position papers GLIMUN 2016 committees
Potable water, a natural right for all humans, is not accessible to one out of ten people in the world.The number of people without access to potable water is only increasing with time, due to the rapidly increasing world population and poor water regulations.These conditions have lead to increased global conflicts, food shortages, and economic slowdowns. In the Russian Federation, approximately 70 percent of drinking water comes from surface water and 30 per cent from groundwater. One fourth of the world’s fresh surface and groundwater is located in the Russian Federation. The water utilities sector is one of the largest industries in the Russian Federation. Ruslan Kondratov, a member of United Russia, the ruling political party of the Russian Federation, said: "Our main goal is to provide the Russian population with quality drinking water for a reasonable cost. This will be achieved by starting the installation of a new technology for water filtration at people's homes and apartments throughout the country. Russian businesses understand that their investments in this program will pay off very quickly."
The government of the Russian Federation supports making clean water more accessible to its citizens and to the rest of the world. “Water for sustainable development,” a plan adopted by the Russian Federation, initiates plans to ensure easier access to water in order to reach the plan’s goals: better lives, better health, better well-being, economic development, and security. New standards determine the water treatment technology and the policy of organizations to monitor the quality of water. To offset the conditions that arise from a lack of potable water, the State Duma of the Russian Federation passed the Federal Act on industrial waste and consumption in June 1996. The Act sets out State policy to utilize finances, science, and other resources to reduce the area of land near testing areas, the dumping and storage of waste, the creation of a market for low-waste technology, and the creation of technology to treat water that has already been exposed to waste. The Russian Federation has also enacted the program “Clean Water” in 2006. The new project is multifaceted and involves the upgrade of water supply and sewage systems in the Russian Federation, changes in legislation to help protect water resources, stimulating the production of equipment and the establishment of the Russian Federation’s brand of drinking water, which will be able to compete with world-renowned brands which will lead to higher standards on water conditions, production, and consumption.
WHO has implemented guidelines for drinking-water quality from microbial aspects to identifying local actions in response to quality problems. In order for countries to eradicate or decrease the overreaching effects of a lack of potable water, the steps taken in the production of potable water should be monitored and recorded by the government of the nation. In the Russian Federation today, policy has made it essential for companies to monitor all steps from the time it is harvested from the water supply to reaching the consumer. This plan will allow for independent growth, better management for water conditions, and an overall better quality of life.
