The Tom River Basin

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The Tom River
Basin

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Over 1000 industrial industrial plants and
human settlements dischage their
wastewaters into the Tom River

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The Tom River basin is
situated in a southern
part of West Siberia.

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The
climate of this area is
sharp continental with a
long and cold period.

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That gives the river a hydrologic regime
with a very non-uniform seasonable
distribution of run-off:
during the period of spring flood about
70% of total run-off is released and in
winter only about 5%.

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Save the Tom
river!