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The problems of potable quality groundwater pollution have now become one of the most important on the Earth. According to UN, about 2 billion people currently lack access to drinking water. Climatic change and increased negative impact of anthropogenic factors significantly affected the quality of water resources. Groundwater is the main source for drinking and other domestic purposes. Many developing regions of the world suffer from shortage of safe drinking water. Basically, the main reason is that due to globa...

The problem of supplying drinking water to population of Mangisstau and West-Kazakhstan regions is especially sensitive as the region is located in semidesert zone, water resources are limited. Development of the region natural resources, creation of sufficient conditions for economy intensive development requires large quantities of quality water. Worsening of sanitation-and-epidemiological situation, unsatisfactory technical state of water-supply systems, as well as gradual contamination and salinity of water so...

The paper considers the causes of freshwater scarcity and its worsening, and gives recommendations for the prevention, remediation and mitigation of climate change negative effects on groundwater. Wet technology sectors have been developed rapidly in the global market. Currently, there is already a clear increase in freshwater scarcity. According to the UN, over 1.2 billion people live under constant growth of freshwater scarcity, and FAO predicts that the number of those living in water scarcity conditions will e...