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Water Woes not Caused by Water World: Strain on irrigation responsible
for drop in water delivery
Society | 15.06.12 | 15:30
Karapet Ohanyan (left) and Gagik Margaryan
By Siranuysh Gevorgyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
Gagik Margaryan, head of customer care department of Yerevan Jur
Company (Yerevan Water Company) and Karapet Ohanyan, managing director
of Yerevan Jur for the eastern districts stated at a press conference
on Friday that recent drops in water supply are connected with the
start of the intensive irrigation season.
Margaryan was responding to some press reports in which two amusement
attractions -- Jrashkharh (Water World) and Dolphinaruim - were blamed
for a reduction in water in some residential areas.
Although water delivery as mostly improved in recent years, summer
typically brings a slow down, due to the demand for crop irrigation.
Ohanyan explained that there are some hours during the day when `the
water supply network is being overloaded'.
He says that that water supply is decreased before reaching Yerevan,
because during this period of the year residents of the villages near
Yerevan also use the water of the same springs which supply water to
Yerevan Jur. Ohanyan says that Water World buys water from Yerevan Jur
for consumer needs only, which is of the same amount as a small
multi-apartment residential apartment would normally use. In other
cases, according to Ohanyan, Water World uses the water taken out of
its own wells. And as for the dolphinarium, Ohanyan says that only
twice a year it takes substantial amount of water from Yerevan Jur.
If in Yerevan people complain about the decrease in drinking water,
then for the residents of villages the lack of irrigation water is an
issue. This is the reason why they do not cultivate almost 30 percent
of their agricultural lands. On June 14, the Government of Armenia
aiming to solve this problem approved a package of proposals that
would approving releasing up to 320 million cubic meters of water from
Lake Sevan. Previously the volume of water permitted by the law to be
used from the lake was 170 million cubic meters.
However, environmentalists do not welcome the initiative of nearly
doubling the strain on Lake Sevan, because according to Ecolur NGO `it
contains high risks for the ecosystem of Lake Sevan, connected with
the violation of the regime of constant rise of the lake's level and
its sharp fluctuation.'
From: A. Papazian
for drop in water delivery
Society | 15.06.12 | 15:30
Karapet Ohanyan (left) and Gagik Margaryan
By Siranuysh Gevorgyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
Gagik Margaryan, head of customer care department of Yerevan Jur
Company (Yerevan Water Company) and Karapet Ohanyan, managing director
of Yerevan Jur for the eastern districts stated at a press conference
on Friday that recent drops in water supply are connected with the
start of the intensive irrigation season.
Margaryan was responding to some press reports in which two amusement
attractions -- Jrashkharh (Water World) and Dolphinaruim - were blamed
for a reduction in water in some residential areas.
Although water delivery as mostly improved in recent years, summer
typically brings a slow down, due to the demand for crop irrigation.
Ohanyan explained that there are some hours during the day when `the
water supply network is being overloaded'.
He says that that water supply is decreased before reaching Yerevan,
because during this period of the year residents of the villages near
Yerevan also use the water of the same springs which supply water to
Yerevan Jur. Ohanyan says that Water World buys water from Yerevan Jur
for consumer needs only, which is of the same amount as a small
multi-apartment residential apartment would normally use. In other
cases, according to Ohanyan, Water World uses the water taken out of
its own wells. And as for the dolphinarium, Ohanyan says that only
twice a year it takes substantial amount of water from Yerevan Jur.
If in Yerevan people complain about the decrease in drinking water,
then for the residents of villages the lack of irrigation water is an
issue. This is the reason why they do not cultivate almost 30 percent
of their agricultural lands. On June 14, the Government of Armenia
aiming to solve this problem approved a package of proposals that
would approving releasing up to 320 million cubic meters of water from
Lake Sevan. Previously the volume of water permitted by the law to be
used from the lake was 170 million cubic meters.
However, environmentalists do not welcome the initiative of nearly
doubling the strain on Lake Sevan, because according to Ecolur NGO `it
contains high risks for the ecosystem of Lake Sevan, connected with
the violation of the regime of constant rise of the lake's level and
its sharp fluctuation.'
From: A. Papazian