Twenty-five ecological indicators and ten subindicators are used to assess the changes in the state of water resources, w'ater consumption volumes in different economic branches, streamflow deficit rate and quality change patterns of surface water and groundwater. Water pollution plays a determining role in the increase in morbidity rate (kidney disease, oncological and acute infectious diseases), resulting in increased adult and child mortality rates. Anthropogenic impacts also result in soil pollution (salinity, toxic pollution, pesticides, residual quantities of fertilizers and heavy metal pollution) and affects public health.