[Efficiency of biotesting as a rapid method for assessing the hazard of environment pollution to human health].

The paper provides the results of studies, which lend support to the efficiency of rapid biotesting methods in the estimation of hazards to human health.

[Evaluation of the effect of drinking water quality on the population's health].

The paper presents data on the quality of drinking water used by the population in the Sverdlovsk Region when water is supplied in the centralized and non-centralized fashion. Interaction of the centre with the Russian consumption inspectorates of the Sverdlovsk Region, different designing, scientific, and profit-making organizations concerned has made it possible to define priority measures and lines to improve water supply systems and the technologies for the preparation, transportation, and delivery of qualitative water to the population.

[Basic hygiene of organizing the systems of household and drinkable water supplies in Middle Urals]. / Gigienicheskie osnovy organizatsii sistem khoziaistvenno-pit'evogo vodosnabzheniia na Srednem Urale.

The authors suggest a methodology of decision making in organization of centralized household and drinkable water supplies, with consideration of local peculiarities.

[Accumulation of metals in animal body after their administration with drinking water]. / Nakoplenie metallov v organizme zhivotnykh pri postuplenii ikh s pit'evoi vodoi.

It has been stated that separate and simultaneous administration into the animal organism of low doses of copper, lead and nickel with drinking water is accompanied by dose-dependent change in the level of not only administered but also endogenic elements in animals' organs. A supposition has been made that the character of changes in the content of the administered and endogenic metals is associated in the organism of animals with the depth of disturbances in metabolic processes.