Order No. 324 of the Ministry of Natural Resources regarding the redesignation of water basin institutions.

The purpose of this Order is to improve the structure of management and conservation of public water. This Order decrees to redesignate the Don water and waterworks institution as the Don water institution with the status of inter-regional territorial branch of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation and to abstract from it chemical research laboratory, scientific programming unit, technical support unit and transport unit. All these abstracted units are to be conformed together for the setting up of the Federal Department "Don basin informational and analytical water and waterworks centre - DONVODINFOTSENTR".