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Water Protection Zone


1. Water protection zones are territories adjacent to the shorelines of seas, rivers, streams, canals, lakes, reservoirs, and on which a special regime for conducting economic and other activities is established in order to prevent pollution, clogging, siltation of the aforementioned water bodies, depletion of their waters, as well as preservation of habitats for aquatic biological resources and other objects of fauna and flora

Source: "Water Code of the Russian Federation" dated June 3, 2006 No. 74-FZ (as amended on June 25, 2012)

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