Article​​​​​​​ 4. Basic concepts

The following basic concepts are used in this Code:

hydraulic structures — dams of reservoirs, dams on rivers, streams, canals, and collectors, barrages in riverbeds, water intake, water transmission, water discharge, and bank protection structures, hydroelectric power stations, pumping stations;

groundwater — waters of underground water bodies;

surface waters — waters of surface water bodies;

drinking water supply — delivery of drinking water to consumers through drinking water supply networks and/or by transport;

canals — water management facilities intended to supply water from a source to the boundary of water users;

collector-drainage waters — underground seepage waters and waste waters;

collector-drainage network — a water management facility intended to collect and discharge underground seepage waters and waste waters;

mineral waters — waters containing dissolved salts, microelements, as well as certain biologically active components that have a positive therapeutic effect;

waste waters — waters used for household, industrial or other needs and polluted with additional impurities that have changed their initial chemical composition and physical properties, as well as waters resulting from precipitation runoff from populated areas and industrial enterprises;

sanitary protection zone — territories adjacent to water facilities intended for drinking, domestic and health-improving purposes, used, being designed, under construction or reconstruction, which are established to ensure their sanitary and epidemiological reliability and have a protection regime;

coastal zone — territories within the water protection zone along natural surface water bodies, as well as used, being designed, under construction and reconstructed water management facilities, established along or around such water bodies to ensure their proper use, reconstruction, repair and restoration, as well as for rational management of water resources and their accounting, having a strict regime;

water supplier organization — a user organization of water management or another legal entity responsible for the use and maintenance of water management facilities, which has been granted the right, on the basis of a contract, to withdraw and deliver water to water users;

harmful effects of water — phenomena caused by the negative impact of water, such as washing away, destruction, flooding, waterlogging, siltation, swamping, salinization and other events;