Physiological and hygienic requirements imposed on water supply for troops in the Arctic zone

The deployment of military garrisons in the Arctic zone requires solutions of health and working capacity maintenance among the military personnel. One of them is to provide a physiologically adequate and safe water supply. Direct use of water for drinking purposes, obtained by the melting of snow, does not meet the physiological needs of the body as a result of the almost complete lack of mineral salts in it. It determines the urgency of the problem of melt water conditioning. The article contains a review of published data on the historical experience of drinking water quality and its correction on ships of various countries, as well as the ships of the Navy of the USSR. Modern data on salinity and how to use for drinking desalinated seawater on Navy ships, melt water and soft water from natural land water sources. The creation in the garrisons of the Arctic stations zone potable water on the basis of scientific data on the methods of its conditioning (mineralization and disinfection).

Arctic zone, water garrisons, physiological and hygienic requirements to water quality, preparation and conditioning of drinking water