On assessing potential risk of damage to health when dealing with water collection and purification and probability of its occurrence

The paper dwells on the assessment of potential health risk (R1) that can occur in the sphere of water collection and purification. It was shown that activities related to water collection and purification held the leading place (6.10 · 10-3) as per Rlaverage in the priority group "Activities in the sphere of public healthcare, provision of communal, social, and private services" (30.9 %). A share of juridical persons and private entrepreneurs whose activities were ranked as having the 1st and 2nd hazard degree as per health risks amounted to 36 % of all the economic entities who provide water collection and purification for drinking water supply system in the RF regions. Our research object was a typical juridical person that provided a large settlement (more than 19 000 thousand people living there) with drinking water taken from a surface source. Water chlorination is a necessary stage in the technological process of water treatment...