Ecosystems and water resources regulation

The article assesses international initiatives in the field of sustainable development, environmental safety and stages of creating integrated water resources management system, including in agriculture. Water shortage acts as a limiting factor for technological processes and balanced economic growth.

The goal is to justify the importance of ecosystem approach to the methodology of hydrosphere formation, develop proposals for improving methods of regulating ecosystem services for the purpose of dynamic progressive movement and stabilization of ecological balance.

Methods - analysis of scientific publications, reports and regulatory documents, principles of rational nature management using mathematical modeling to predict the effectiveness of ecosystem strategy for regulating water supply. Results - the study revealed the most significant limitations in the rules for building ecosystems and coordinating interaction of their participants in the republic, including low level of awareness of government agencies and stakeholders in the importance of environmental safety, as well as imperfection of legal and institutional frameworks necessary for integration of ecosystem patterns.

Conclusions - the proposed strategic model aimed at forming organizational structures, expanding monitoring and interaction of target financial mechanisms helps to overcome existing barriers. The implementation of such measures will improve water quality, preserve biodiversity and ensure long-term ecological balance, especially in the context of climate change and increasing pressure on water resources, including agricultural production. The water management complex, the level of flooding, uninterrupted and sufficiency of water supply to agricultural sector, the state of water bodies, reliability of forecasting water management situations, and minimizing damage determine socio-economic sustainability in rural areas.

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