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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
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