MOSCOW, November 11. /TASS/. Russia’s groundwater reserves are expected to increase by 40,000 cubic meters per day in 2026 as a result of geological exploration funded by the federal budget, head of the Department of Oil and Gas Geology, Groundwater and Underground Structures at the Federal Agency for Subsoil Use (Rosnedra) Nina Erofeyeva said.
"I would like to point out that we are completing work at four sites this year. They are listed here. The expected increase in reserves is about 40,000 cubic meters per day," she said, noting that geological exploration at four sites in the Penza, Rostov, and Novosibirsk Regions, as well as the Krasnoyarsk Region, would be completed this year.
Geological exploration at four new sites is planned for 2027, with groundwater reserves expected to increase by 60,600 cubic meters per day, according to Erofeyeva’s presentation.
She said that considerable attention was also being paid to geological exploration for water resources in Russia’s reunified territories. In particular, an assessment of the current state of drinking water and groundwater deposits in the unallocated subsoil fund in the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) is being completed in 2026. An assessment of mineral groundwater and therapeutic mud deposits in the unallocated subsoil fund in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR), as well as the Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions, is also being completed this year, according to Erofeyeva’s presentation.