Thermal Waters and the Effect of Their Use on the Environment

Abstract

Geothermal industrial activity disturbs in one way or another the ecological balance in nature. In the USSB, estimation of detrimental environmental effects with rapidly developing world economy is now considered not only in theoretical terms, but also as a complex and urgent problem, which has not been studied enough by scientists. Not very long ago this problem troubled only a small group of technologists. Recently, however, economists have become more experienced in this problem, who rely very heavily upon the results processed by computers. Industry and agriculture are vital for human well-being within a desirable environmental setting and extraction of thermal waters can be of much use within the USSR in reaching such objectives. Against this background we should consider the undesirable effects of the thermoenergetic and chemical use of thermal waters on nature.