Problems of the Goal-setting in Public Planning of Water/protective Measures in River Basins

The paper presents detailed analysis of the norm/methodical and guiding documents currently in force that support choice of goals and priorities in public planning water/protective activities. The authors have assessed advantages and disadvantages of the «Regulations on development, setting and revision of the environment quality norms for chemical and physical indicators of the environment status», as well as relevant regulation acts in terms of setting water quality norms for surface water bodies with taking into account territorial differentiation of the water quality formation conditions. The authors presented some proposals for further development of the system of water quality normalization. In particular, we recommended: to abandon accounting of the water use types in setting norms of the surface water quality as a component of environment; to take into account the natural background at the expense of the state budget; and to use widely tested and approved mechanisms of water quality objectives as a methodical base for water quality normalizing. The scheme of coordinating the procedure of the comprehensive ecological permissions’ issue with the water quality objectives.