ASSESSMENT OF THE STATE OF NATURAL WATER RESOURCES AND PREDICTION OF THEIR DYNAMICS IN NEAREST DECADES

Abstract. The permanent monitoring of the state of water resources in the territory of the Russian Empire was started in the lakes Chud and Ladoga as far back as the beginning of the 19th century. Some time later, similar monitoring was started in the Lake Baikal. Since the 70ties of the 20th century, Ago Jaani from Estonia has been the most authorized researcher of the Lake Chud. Thanks to him, at the beginning of the 90ties, an international group of researcher