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    BIG HPPS ON CAUCASIAN RIVERS NEED TRANSBOUNDARY RIVERS IMPACT ASSESSMENT

    arminfo
    Friday, August 3, 17:50

    "When building big hydraulic structures on the rivers in the
    Caucasus, assessment of possible impact on the Transboundary Rivers is
    required as well as Strategic Environmental. Assessment. Nino
    Chkhobadze, former minister of environment of Georgia, Co-chair of the
    NGO Greens Movement of Georgia - Friends of the Planet, made such
    statement talking to ArmInfo.

    She said that Transboundary Rivers in the Caucasus are used for
    irrigation purposes, so water deficiency or avulsion may affect the
    irrigation system. All this, she said, will have a negative impact on
    the agriculture, industry and economy, in general. Chkhobadze brought
    the example of the project of the Cascade of hydropower plants
    Beshikaya in Turkey that implies avulsion of the head waters of the
    River of Kura. Under the project, the riverhead will start in the
    territory of Georgia and not Turkey. Consequently, if the project is
    implemented, water deficiency in the Kura River basin will make up
    30-%-40%, which will create serious environmental problems for the
    basins of Kura and Aras rivers.

    Environmentalists in Armenia are alarming that construction of small
    HPPs may endanger the fish fauna and the nearby forests.

    Environmentalists outline the project of HPP on the tributary Paghjour
    of the Agstev River that may affect Lastiver Waterfall, as well as two
    small HPPs on the River of Meghri, which resulted in change of the
    ground category near the National park Arevik. Residents of
    Gegharkunik region are alarming that construction of a new HPP on the
    River of Argichi will leave the Martuni community without water.

    Activists are concerned that the river may shrink affecting
    reproduction of the trout and other fish included in the Red Book.

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