The objective of the paper is to assess drinking water quality based upon analyses of water quality indexes from different sources in rural settlements of Zhytomyr Region. Materials and methods: The research data was taken from the national reports about the environmental situation in Ukraine, national reports about drinking water quality and current water supply state in Ukraine, Zhytomyr sanitary-epidemiological authority reports, and reports of the Zhytomyr main statistics department. The analyzed period was between 2003–2011. During the research the methods of systemic analyses and logical generalization were used to systemize the obtained information. Quantitative and qualitative analyses were used for data assessment. The dynamics of drinking water qualitative changes of the first and second category, centralized and non-centralized water supply objects in Zhytomyr Region according to the epidemic safety, radiological, sanitary and chemical indexes were assessed. The regions with the highest percentage of negative samples were defined. The quality and safety of drinking water; its pollution levels sufficiently influence all physiological and biochemical processes that occur in the human body and negatively impact people‘s health in Zhytomyr Region. Therefore the morbidity rate is steadily growing and the average life expectancy is stably low. It was found that the state of subsurface water drinking objects‘ in rural territories of Zhytomyr Region is much worse than all over Ukraine. This advances the demands for implementing innovative technologies, financing the projects of diversification drinking water sources, and raising the rural population’s mo­tivation for using the safe drinking water and making healthy choices.

Zhytomyr National Agroecological University Chair of Ecological Management Zhytomyr Ukraine

Zhytomyr Nursing Institute Chair of Nursing Zhytomyr Ukraine

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