«The human right on potable water is fundamental to life and health. Provision of sufficient and safe potable water is an indispensable condition of realization of all human rights», – so is fixed in the United Nations documents.

The “Water Supply and Sanitary Technique” Journal was founded in 1913 at the first stages of formation of water supply practice in Russia. For about a century, the Journal has been struggling for the prestige of the branch, recognition of its importance, dealing with the most important scientific and technical issues in the field of water supply and water disposal, water treatment, heating, ventilation and air conditioning. Results of scientific studies and progressive technical solutions published in the Journal have favored a full-scale introduction of new efficient technologies and designs into municipal services, industrial and rural construction.

The journal is a peer-reviewed scientific publication included into the international abstract databases and citation systems (GeoRef, Chemical Abstracts Service, Speleological Abstracts), and in accordance with clause 5 of the rules of compiling “Catalogue of the peer-reviewed scientific publications where the basic research results of the Ph. D. and Doctoral theses shall be published” approved by RF Ministry of Education and Science Order of December 12, 2016, No. 1586 (registered by RF Ministry of Justice on April 26, 2017, Registration No. 46507), has been included into this Catalogue (as on April 12, 2022). The journal has been also included into databases of Scientific Electronic Library eLIBRARY.RU, Russian Index of Scientific Citation (RINTS), VINITI RAS.

The Journal covers the following scientific issues:

water supply: designs of facilities and flow charts of water  treatment  for domestic and industrial purposes; methods of softening, demineralization and desalinization, conditioning of water, production of superpure water; methods of hydraulic and technical and economic calculation of water supply systems for large industrial enterprises of cities and agricultural objects.

wastewater   treatment  and sewerage:  theoretical  fundamentals  of   wastewater  and sludge  treatment  methods; new technological schemes, types and designs of facilities for mechanical, biochemical and physicochemical  treatment   of   wastewater  in various branches of industry;  treatment  of high concentrated  wastewater  and advanced  treatment  of runoffs; principles and methods of  secondary and consecutive use of industrial  wastewater ; methods of improvement of the existing technique of  treatment  and utilization  of   wastewater  sludge;

use of water in complete cycles without wastes discharge into reservoirs;

waterworks in  water industry;

intake, use and protection against pollution and exhaustion of ground water;

automation and management of systems of water industry  and power saving;

heat supply, heating, ventilation and air-conditioning.

Beginning from no. 4, 2019, the editors start publishing in open access the English text of some articles (the English version of the site) as well as abstracts of articles from foreign periodicals.