HYDROLOGY

Water resources are all waters of an area that are either used, or can be used, for the economy. They are contained in rivers (there are more than two million rivers in Russia), lakes (Lake Baikal is the world's largest freshwate lake) and storage reservoirs, deep underground aquifers that are not connected with the rivers, and in soil, bogs, swamps, and mountain glaciers. The main type of water resource, however, is a river runoff which is abundant practically everywhere and annually renewable. Other kinds of water resources play an auxiliary role, although in some regions they can have significant importance for the water supply of the population and for some branches of the economy. More Details...

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Run-off characteristics
   Total Runoff
   Runoff variation
   Underground runoff

Snow characteristics
   Dates of establishment
   Dates of destruction
   Snow Storage
   Temporal variability
   Snow redistribution
   Runoff from snow melt

Glaciers
  Freezing Potential