“Checking reservoirs for bathing suitability is carried out for the safety of the citizens themselves.

The places officially designated for mass bathing are periodically checked for the presence of contamination: bacteria and viruses, industrial effluents, radioactivity.

If we talk about infections, first of all, E. coli is examined.

It gets into water bodies not only from humans, but also from animals.

That is, bacterial pollution can be caused, for example, by the ingress of wastewater from a farm into a reservoir, ”explained Vladimir Bolibok.

As the doctor added, Rospotrebnadzor laboratories also check water bodies for the presence of toxic substances and industrial pollution.

“These are heavy metals, oil products, phenols ... All this is done to ensure that those who swim in the reservoir do not suffer damage to their health.

If the reservoir is not checked or checked and it is not allowed to swim in it, then this bathing is at your own peril and risk, "the interlocutor of RT warned.

In turn, Vladimir Zhemchugov said that at the bottom of such reservoirs there may be bulky waste, too.

“While diving, you can hit, you can catch on snatches of nets, ropes are mechanical obstacles.

From the point of view of bacteriology, anything can be.

It is likely that

sewage flows

there (into the reservoir - 

RT

), and this is the whole group of gastrointestinal infections transmitted by the fecal-oral route, "the specialist explained.

According to him, in this way, for example, you can become infected with dysentery, typhoid fever, viral hepatitis A.

The expert also warned about the danger of toxocariasis (human infection caused by ascaris larvae of animals) and helminthic invasions.

Earlier, the scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center, Roman Vilfand, said that the start of the swimming season in the capital and the Moscow region was postponed to the second half of next week due to rainy weather.