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    Azeri ministry says Armenia, Georgia responsible for pollution of river -
    paper

    Zerkalo, Baku
    28 Jul 06

    Azerbaijan is concerned at the pollution of the River Kur by Armenia
    and Georgia because it uses water resource of this river for drinking
    needs, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources said
    in statement on 27 July, Zerkalo newspaper reported.

    Arif Isgandarov, head of the department for the protection of nature
    and ecology of the ministry, said that water samples from the river
    showed that it was unsuitable for drinking.

    The director of the centre for ecological forecasting, Telman
    Zeynalov, does not think the ministry's statement contains something
    new. He thinks water in the River Kur has never conformed to
    international standards. "The River Kur is polluted with sewage water,
    wastes of different industrial enterprises on the territory of the two
    states," the expert said.

    He believes that drinking water must go through seven phases of
    purification, but this amounts to four stages in our country and the
    last phase is chlorine treatment from which the developed countries
    have renounced long ago, the paper reported.
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