Article​​​​​​​ 135. Regime for carrying out economic activities in the sanitary protection zone of surface and underground drinking and domestic water supply sources and the structures of drinking and domestic water supply systems

Land included within water protection zones and sanitary protection zones shall not be withdrawn from land users and lessees and shall continue to be used by them in compliance with the requirements established by Chapter 24 of this Code, except for land within coastal strips and sanitary protection belts.

By decisions of local executive authorities:

coastal strips of rivers and other perennial natural watercourses shall be allocated to land users and lessees for the implementation of environmental protection, nature conservation and other measures, as well as for the efficient use of land plots;

coastal strips of water management facilities shall be allocated to organizations operating such facilities for the purposes of their operation, reconstruction, repair and restoration, ensuring the rational management and accounting of water resources, implementing environmental protection and nature conservation measures, as well as ensuring the efficient use of land plots.

Areas designated for soil mounds within the coastal strips of canals, irrigation and collector-drainage networks may, in agreement with the operating organizations, be granted for temporary use or leased under a contract to farms, dehkan farms and other organizations for the cultivation of agricultural products following the removal and levelling of soil mounds, as well as for the use of such soil as construction material.

Land plots within the first belt of the sanitary protection zones of sources of drinking, domestic and mineral water supply shall, together with the relevant land plots, be granted in the prescribed manner for use by organizations operating water intake facilities and other structures for the construction of such facilities.

Within the water protection zones of reservoirs and other water bodies, rivers and other watercourses, as well as canals whose waters are used for drinking and domestic water supply, the following shall be prohibited:

the use and burial of any type of toxic chemicals used for the control of plant pests, diseases and weeds;

the construction of warehouses for the storage of toxic chemicals, pesticides, herbicides and mineral fertilizers, sites for filling equipment with toxic chemicals, and airstrips for carrying out aerial chemical operations;