The Problems and Perspectivesof Exploring Caves

Author: giorgi dvalashvili
Co-authors: Ramin Gobejishvili
Keywords: Karstology, Geoekology, Relief Geomorphology
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Nowadays the practical importance of the caves isas follows: A) Usage oftheir water, B) Exploitation of sewerage, C) Treatment of the caves, D) Cave tourism, E) Extraction of useful cave fossils, F) Usage of Caves as warehouses, G) Growingvegetable crops in winter inside the caves, etc. Usage of Cave waters for drinking is allowed in those cases, if their isolation from non-hygiene surface water is ascertained. These kinds of groundwater flows gather water within the pools of uninhabited surface, forested and alpine zone.Whencaves are used as a treatment, caution should be used in the study of cave and accurate medical diagnosis of disease.

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The Problems and Perspectivesof Exploring Caves [en]
მღვიმეების ათვისების პრობლემები და პერსპექტივები [ka]