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    Expert: Decision to increase water release from Lake Sevan to 270 mln
    cu m is a shady transaction

    by Karina Manukyan

    ARMINFO
    Tuesday, July 22, 13:05

    The decision to increase the water release from Lake Sevan to 270 mln
    cu m is a shady transaction, Head of the Green Union of Armenia Hakob
    Sanasaryan has told ArmInfo.

    To remind, on 29 April the Parliament amended the Law "On approval of
    the annual complex action plan on restoration, maintenance,
    reproduction and exploitation of the ecosystem of Lake Sevan" in the
    first reading. According to the amendments, the maximum water release
    from the Sevan shall be increased from 170 mln cu m to 240 mln cu m
    for a year.

    Head of EcoLur NGO Inga Zarafyan has told ArmInfo that it has recently
    become known to the environmentalists that after the first reading the
    Government submitted a new document to the Parliament, which said that
    the maximum water release shall be increased to 270 mln cu m. The
    Parliament approved these amendments. So, the decision making process
    was not transparent, because the public was not even informed of the
    plans to increase the release to 270 mln cu m.

    Sanasaryan thinks that the given situation demonstrates certain
    people's intention to prevent the water level rise in order to protect
    their business interests. The expert says that usually the water is
    released from the Lake for irrigation purposes on 11-20 June. The
    current year cannot be called rainless (except for the past 10-15 hot
    days). Meanwhile, by mid June the water release from the Sevan totaled
    over 140 mln cu m already", he says.

    He thinks that such a policy will slowdown the self-purification of
    Lake Sevan and may have a negative effect on the ichthyofauna.




    From: A. Papazian
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