Modern problems of water quality in Moscow channel

Moscow channel is the complex hydrotechnical construction providing water supply and transport communication of Moscow city with river systems by the European part of Russia. Specificity of a hydrological regime of the channel at presence in its system the pump stations, sluices and cascade of water basins, and also its complex use impose the specific impress on functioning of its ecosystem that does not promote processes of autopurification of water. The ecosystem of the channel cannot cope with an increasing anthropogenic load, that, naturally, leads to deterioration of water.