Communication for investors on available potential sites of high-quality fresh groundwater for indus-trial bottling on the territory of the Republic of Belarus (стр. 5 )

Up to the present drinking water has fallen under the category of non-commercial goods in the area of International trade. In the EC States drinking water accounts for 3 % out of the total sales volume of bottled waters. The trade value of one tonne of high quality drinking water in German and France makes up more than US $ 2000, in Russia 420-440, and in Belarus 220-230.

In the neighboring countries and EC countries quoting and licensing relating to manufacture and selling of drinking and mineral waters are not applied but strict requirements to quality, recovery process and the state of equipment through the whole production chain are in force.

Thus drinking water in the EC countries is standardized in line with Directive 98/83/ЕС on drinking water by 43 parameters for the content of maximum permissible microelement concentration, 7 microbiological and 2 radioactive parameters.

According to Directive 80/777/ЕЕС the main principles for accepting water as «natural mineral» are water withdrawal from a particular protected spring (the performance of geological and hydrogeological expertise), the natural character of water and its healthy properties, stability of its content relating to mineral substances (physical and chemical analyses by 12 indices, the microbiological analysis by 6 evaluative parameters and the performance of clinical and pharmacological analyses), as well as bottling in the initial condition without treatment. In most cases the certification process of new natural mineral water takes not less than two years.

water acceptance in the EC countries involves analyses in laboratories having an appropriate certification. Usually European countries require that evaluation shall be carried out in their laboratories. The acceptance of bottled water in a particular country requires that the appropriate agencies of this country are obligated to carry out a number of procedures and inspections to assess the stability of the content of underground water wells according to the quality indices during the 2-year period, their protectability from any pollution as well as to put the well on the List of the country in question.

After the sertification of bottled water in one EC country water is exported only to this country. The bottled water gains access to the EC market only when it is put on the List of certified waters from the third countries published by the European associations of cooler waters in the official EC journal.

In the process of designing and setting up enterprises for manufacture and bottling of fresh and mineral groundwater for export it is required to enforce the requirements of Directive 98/83ЕС on Drinking Water and Directives 80/777/ЕЕС, 96/70EC and 2003/40ЕС on natural mineral water.

Contact data:

Department for Geology, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus - Republic of Belarus, 220040, Minsk, Nekrasov str., 7, tel. (+, fax (+4, е-mail: *****@***com. Director Vladimir V. Karpuk.

National unitary exploration enterprise «Belgeology» - Republic of Belarus, Minsk, Nekrasov str., 7, tel. (+3, fax (+2, е-mail: *****@***. Deputy Director General Leonid V. Filazapovich (tel. (+).

Subsurface sites potential for production and bottling of fresh underground water

№ p/p	Site, its location and well №	aquifer (complex), interval of the filter slacking-off (from-to), well depth, m	Infrastructure
1.	Liushnevo, Baranovichi district, Brest region well № 000/67	Dnieper-Sozh 31,0-41,0	0,5 km to hard surface highway, 6 km to power networks, 10 km to the railway station Mitskevichi, non - gasified
2.	Teshevle, Baranovichi district, Brest region well № 000/72	Dnieper-Sozh 57,0-67,0	0,3 km to hard surface highway, 3 km to power networks, 7 km to the railway station Mitskevichi, non-gasified
3.	Kroshin, Baranovichi district, Brest region well № 000/69	Pinsk terrigenous 158,0-204,0	0,4 km to hard surface highway, 6 km to power networks, 13 km to the railway station Baranovichi-centre, non-gasified township
4.	Zhemchuzhny, Baranovichi district, Brest region well № 000/82	Oxford, central well 210,0	0,2 km to hard surface highway, 0,6 km to power networks, 7,5 km to the railway station Baranovichi-centre, non-gasified township
5.	Botovo, Pinsk District, Brest region well № 000/72	Proterozoic 160,0-210,0	0,3 km to hard surface highway, 6 km to power networks, 22 km to the railway station Lovcha (Lunin), non - gasified township
6.	Ozarichi, Kalinkovichi district, Gomel region well № 000/91	Berezinsk-Dnieper, central well 150 m	0,5 km from the highway Parichi-Kalinkovichi, a power network in Ozarichi, 16 km from the railway station Pludim, non-gasified township
7.	Dainova, Voronovo district, Grodno region well № 000/80	Berezinsk-Dneiper, 90,0-96,0	2,5 km to hard surface highway, 0,7 km to power networks, 8 km to the railway station Bastuny, non-gasified township
8.	Rudevichi, Zelva district, Grodno region well № 000/75	Dnieper-Sozh 28,0-34,0	1,2 km to hard surface highway, 2 km to power networks, the railway station Zelevo is a 15 km way, non-gasified township
9.	Leliuki, Ivie district, Grodno region well № 000/81	Dnieper-Sozh 36,0-44,0	3 km to hard surface highway, 2 km to power networks, no railway station, non-gasified township
10.	Mostische, Novogrudok district, Grodno region, well № 000/90	Dnieper-Sozh 87.0-105	10 km to Novogrudok, non-gasified township
11.	Gervyaty, Ostrovets district, Grodno region well № 000/87	Berezinsk-Dnieper, 95,0-101,0	0,5 km to hard surface highway, 3,5 km to power networks, 20 km to the railway station Starye Soly, non-gasified township
12.	Dorgishki, Oshmyany district, Grodno region well № 000/84	Dnieper-Sozh 67,0-75,0	0,5 km to hard surface highway, 0,2 km to power networks, 13 km to the railway station Bogdanov, non-gasified township
13.	Zhirovichi, Slonim district, Grodno region well № 000/85	Dnieper-Sozh 76,0-88,0	0,2 km to hard surface highway, 2,0 km to power networks, 8,5 km to the railway station Slonim, non-asified township
14.	Kamenka, Shchuchinski district, Grodno region well № 000/5793	Dnieper-Sozh, central well 43 m	0,6 km to hard surface highway, 1,0 km to power networks, 9 km to the railway station Rozhanka, non-gasified township
15.	Vileika spring tract Tyrovshchina, Vileika district, Minsk region well	Dnieper-Sozh	hard surface highway along the site, power networks along, gas - a 500 m way
16.	Smolichi, Kopyl district, Minsk region well № 000/76	Dnieper-Sozh 29,0-34,0	9,5 km to hard surface highway, 8 km to power networks, no railway station, non-gasified township
17.	Starobin, Soligorsk district, Minsk region well № 000/98	Dnieper-Sozh, palaeogene 29,0-39,0	0,4 km to hard surface highway, 1,5 km to power networks, 10 km to the railway station Soligorsk, non-gasified township
18.	Rukhovo, Starye Dorogi district, Minsk region well № 000/89	Berezinsk-Dnieper, 49,0-55,0	0,6 km to hard surface highway, 0,8 km to power networks, 12 km to the railway station Starye Dorogi, non-gasified township
19.	Bolshaya Gorozha, Osipovichi district, Mogilev region well w/№	Berezinsk-Dnieper, 31,2-42,0	2,5 km to hard surface highway, 0,7 km to power networks, 8 km to the railway station Bastuny, non-gasified township

Chemical Content of fresh underground water sites potential for industrial production and bottling

№ p/p	Site	well №	odor, grades	after-taste, grades	color, degrees	turbidity, mg/dm3	рН	Cl-, mg/dm3	SO4, mg/dm3	PO4, мmg/dm3	SiO2, mg/dm3	NO3-, mg/dm3	Al, mg/dm3	Ba, mg/dm3	Be, mg/dm3	Fe (total), mg/dm3	Cd, mg/dm3	Co, mg/dm3	Li, mg/dm3	Mn, mg/dm3	Cu, mg/dm3	Mo, mg/dm3	Na, mg/dm3
Sanitary Standards for bottling in Belarus first category highest category	0 0	0 0	5 5	1 0,5	6-9 4-9	250 150	250/150	3,53,5	21,4/21,4	205	0,2 0,1	0,7 0,1	0,0002	0,2	0,001	0,1	0,03	0,05	1	0,07	200
EC Standards for bottling				4	6,5 8,5	250	250			50	0,2	0,1		0,2				0,05
Brest region
Baranovichi district
1.	Liushnevo	16040/ 67	0	0	2,88	0,27	7,0	4,6	2,0	_	12,1	4,5	_	_	_	0,05	_	_	_	_	_	_	3,5
2.	Teshevle	23161/ 72	0	0	3,2	0,25	7,9	5,1	5,1	_	13,0	_	_	_	_	0,05	_	_	_	_	_	_	7,0
3.	Kroshin	190500/69	0	0	4,64	0,33	8,25	4,6	2,0	_	7,7	0,5	_	_	_	m. 0,05	_	_	_	_	_	_	107,5
4.	Zhemchuzhny	36322/ 82	0	0	4,8	0,36	7,55	8,0	3,3	_	20,5	0,7	_	_	_	m. 0,05	_	_	_	_	_	_	5,0
Pinsk district
5.	Botovo	23120/ 72	0	0	3,36	0,12	6,67	8,0	m. 2,0	_	8,5	0,3	_	_	_	m. 0,05	_	_	_	_	_	_	87,0
Gomel region
Kalinkovichi district
6.	Ozarichi	45510 /91	0	0	1	0,1	7,15	11,4	4,9	_	13,56	4,8	_	_	_	0,2	_	_	_	_	_	_	5,0
Grodno region
Voronovo district
7.	Dainova	33388/80	0	0	4,8	0,1	7,9	8,6	8,6	_	16,76	4,2	m. 0,015	m. 0,01	m. 0,002	0,08	_	m. 0,01	m. 0,01	m. 0,02	m. 0,01	m. 0,03	5,0
Zelva district
8.	Rudevichi	26909/75	0	0	3,92	0,37	7,62	11,4	11,9	_	14,4	14,5	_	_	_	m. 0,05	_	_	_	_	_	_	3,8
Ivie district
9.	Leliuki	35419/81	0	0	m. 1,0	0,1	8,15	14,3	14,4	_	10,61	4,1	m. 0,015	0,022	m. 0,002	0,06	–	m. 0,01	m. 0,01	m. 0,02	m. 0,01	m. 0,03	3,8
Novogrudok district
10.	Mostische	47027/90	0	0	1,2	0,1	7,8	9,2	9,5	_	14,57	11,3	m. 0,015	0,015	m. 0,002	0,09	_	m. 0,01	m. 0,01	m. 0,02	m. 0,01	m. 0,03	4,2
Ostovets district
11.	Gervyaty	41088/87	0	0	m. 1,0	0,1	7,9	3,4	8,6	_	18,70	0,3	0,034	m. 0,01	m. 0,002	0,07	_	m. 0,01	m. 0,01	0,02	m. 0,01	m. 0,03	3,3
Oshmyany district
12.	Dorgishki	38912/84	0	0	m. 1,0	0,1	7,75	5,7	11,5	_	17,04	7,8	m. 0,015	m. 0,01	m. 0,002	0,09	_	m. 0,01	m. 0,01	m. 0,02	m. 0,01	m. 0,03	4,3
Slonim district
13.	Zhirovichi	39054/85	0	0	m. 1,0	0,13	7,8	14,9	19,3	_	15,3	14,7	m. 0,015	m. 0,01	m. 0,002	0,11	_	m. 0,01	m. 0,01	m. 0,02	m. 0,01	m. 0,03	3,6
Shchuchin district
14.	Kamenka	4892/ 5793	0	0	m. 1,0	0,1	7,9	12,6	19,8	_	14,14	2,6	m. 0,015	0,01	m. 0,002	0,09	_	m. 0,01	m. 0,01	m. 0,02	m. 0,01	m. 0,03	4,1
Minsk region
Vileika district
15.	«Vileiski spring»	б/н	0	0	1,73	0,16	7,85	8,9	14,0	0,01	10,16	3,6	0,05	_	m.0,0001	0,18	m. 0,001	m. 0,001	–	m. 0,05	0,0015	m. 0,005	8,4
Kopyl district
16.	Smolichi	36334/ 76	0	0	м. 1	0,1	7,83	12,6	9,1	_	20,5	9,7	m. 0,015	m. 0,01	m. 0,002	0,1	_	m. 0,01	m. 0,01	m. 0,02	m. 0,01	m. 0,03	5,5
Soligorsk district
17.	Starobin	52277/ 98	0	0	м. 1	0,1	7,18	14,3	7,4	_	18,3	12,4	m. 0,015	m. 0,01	m. 0,002	0,2	_	m. 0,01	m. 0,01	m. 0,02	m. 0,01	m. 0,03	3,7
Starye Dorogi district
18.	Rubezhi (Rukhovo)	45722/ 89	0	0	м. 1	0,1	7,2	5,1	5,3	_	17,5	0,9	m. 0,015	m. 0,01	m. 0,002	0,12	_	m. 0,01	m. 0,01	m. 0,02	m. 0,01	m. 0,03	3,0
Mogilev region
Osipovichi district
19.	Bolshaya Gorozha	w/№	0	0	4,56	0,33	7,7	3,4	11,1	_	13,8	2,3	_	_	_	0,07	_	_	_	_	_	_	2,9

To be continued