METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF SURFACE WATER RESOURCES

Water resources are critically important for the maintenance of life on Earth and various aspects of human activity. Sustainable management and protection of water resources are priorities for environmental conservation and sustainable development. Assessing the prospects for the use of water resources in economically developed regions is a rather complex complex task associated with both scenarios for the development of water-consuming sectors of the economy and the need to take into account changes occurring in the hydrological and climatic system. Such changes affect the conditions of runoff formation and can lead to a significant transformation of the water regime, this problem is especially significant for basins with low availability of water resources. In this scientific study, firstly, an algorithm for assessing surface waters by administrative districts is proposed, which is necessary to solve sectoral problems; secondly, a methodological approach is proposed for assessing the water supply of a territory with surface waters, taking into account a set of criteria necessary for assessing the water supply of administrative territories with surface waters