Mineral waters in the Slovak republic

Slovakia is extraordinerily  rich on  mineral and thermal waters. They have a big sanitary , economic and social  importance. All known types of mineral waters except radioactive  exist in Slovakia. Some of them ioccures n very high concentration. Mineral waters  differ from  the common ground water by its chemical and physical properties. According to the Czechoslovak  Norm - 86 8000 there are three types of mineral waters:

1. natural mineral waters are waters of natural or caught  springssources, containing on issue more than 1 g of dissolved solids or 1 g of   dissolved CO2 in 1l.
2. natural curative waters are waters ,which have favourable effects on human health  due to their chemical composition  and physical properties. They have been scientifically proved  that it is possible to exploit  them  for  curative purposes.
3. natural potable mineral waters are waters  suitable for refreshing drinks due to their  chemical composition ,physical  and sensual  properties. They  contain less than 1 g of dissolved CO2 and more than  5 g of dissolved solids. None of these components as well as the whole set of these components have no distinct pharmacological  effects.

Mineral and curative waters could be divided and cathegorised according to:

• the gas composition of mineral waters - carbonic, sulphur
• general mineralization /very low mineralized,   low mineralized, medium mineralized and high mineralized
• the main  ions content of mineral waters - sulphur, iodine, bromic , ferrous   and with higher table of contents elements : Li ,Sr, Ba, Mn, F, H2Si3, HBO2
• biological and pharmacological important components
• actual reaction : very acid, very alkaline
• radioactivity - radon waters
• the temperature of the rock media for  the water which flows out of surface origin / extremely low-thermal,   low-thermal ,medium-thermal, high-thermal, overheated/
• osmotic pressure - hypotonic , isotonic , hypertonic

The research of mineral and curative springs is a part of the water-management research which was processed in July 1992. The research was elaborated and based on  the spring inventory archived by Inspectorates of Spas and Springs  supervised  by the Ministry of Health in Bratislava . Information and data contained in  P. Krahulec publication " Mineral waters in Slovakia" from  1997 were also used to complete this material dokument study.

- water-management research which was processed in July 1992

Slovak-English dictionary - most frequent terms relevant to mineral waters

English-Slovak dictionary - most frequent terms relevant to mineral waters

 - GPS aplication in SEA
 
This map is clickable image.Click on mark of each mineral water.The size of them is about 200kB , sometimes it can go a little slowly.