Siberian rivers

Streamflow discharge of major Siberian rivers into the Arctic Ocean has increased in recent years and is associated with a warmer climate and enhanced precipitation in the river basins. ... 

Gordeev Y.Y. Gulidov A.V. Holms P. and Peterson B. (2000). River outflow of nutrients to Russian Arctic Achievements and Problems. Proceedings of the Second Conference Ecology of Siberian River Basins and the Arctic (November 24-26, 2000, Tomsk), pp. 108-113 [in Russian]. 

Telang, S.A., Puckington, R., Naidu, A.S., Romankevich, E.A., Gitelson, I.I., and Gladyshev, M.I. (1991) Carbon and mineral transport in major North American, Russian Arctic and Siberian Rivers, the St. Lawrence, the Mackenzie, the Arctic Alaskan rivers, the Arctic Basin rivers in the Soviet Union and the Yenisei. In Biogeochemistry of Major Rivers (Degens, E.T., Kempe, S., and Richey, J.E., eds.), pp. 77-104, John Wiley, New York. 

Encourages Siberian River diversions to Central Asian republics for drinking... 

Proverbial "Eleventh hour discussions on saving the delta of the Amudarya Resurgence of idea to divert Siberian river water to Aral Basin... 

In March 1988, an article in the Uzbek party and government paper, Pravda Vostoka, by the president of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences and the director of the Central Asian Irrigation Research Institute stated that the ecological and socioeconomic difficulties of the Aral region could not be solved without diversion of water from Siberian rivers Pravda Vostoka, 3 March 1988 3). In October 1988, a national water management expert stated that water resources in the Aral Sea basin would be exhausted no later than 2005, in spite of comprehensive and successful efforts to improve water usage efficiency and that since 15 years would be required to complete the Siberian water transfer project, work on it needed to be started soon Pravda Vostoka, 10 October 1988 3). 

Brown, B. (1985). Whatever happened to Sibaral Radio Liberty Research, RL 420/85, 4 pp. Brown, B. (1986). What whl cancellation of the Siberian River Diversion Project mean to Central Asia Radio Liberty Research, RL 334/86,3 pp. 

Duke, D. F. (2006). Seizing favours from nature The rise and fall of Siberian rivers diversion. In T. Tvendt E. lakobsson, E. (Eds.), A history of water Water control and river biographies (pp. 3-34). UK l.B. Taurus. 

Arctic seas are subject to contamination by oil and oil products [Figs. 3 and 4]. Barents Sea is mostly contaminated by the oil products brought there from the Atlantic by the ocean. The highest concentrations of oil were observed in the western part of the sea. The main contributors of oil to the Kara Sea and other seas to the east are Siberian rivers—Ob, Pur, Enisey, Lena and others. Concentrations of oil in the mouths of the rivers and in bays are higher than in open parts of seas. 

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