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CONCERN OVER SEVAN: ENVIRONMENTALISTS CALL FOR RATIONAL USE OF WATER RESOURCES
Environment | 04.06.14 | 16:42
By Gohar Abrahamyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
Environmentalists warn again that irrational use of water resources
noticeably harms the Armenian environment.
Still in April Armenian lawmakers voted 96 to 15, with 4 abstentions,
to adopt a controversial bill that allows additional water drainage
from Lake Sevan.
On Wednesday at a meeting with reporters the head of For Sustainable
Human Development NGO Karine Danielyan, addressing the problem of
water drainage from Lake Sevan, said that there is an obvious problem
of water shortage in the Ararat basin, but it is very wrong to solve
that problem on the account of the Sevan.
"In the Ararat valley it is very important to regulate fisheries'
actions, because they haven't been properly isolated and now there is
water waste, and swamps appear right in that region, in other parts,
at the same time, there is a threat of desertification. Water must
be used twice, before developing fisheries all conditions must be
studied," said Danielyan.
Head of the Sociometer sociological center Aharon Adibekyan said that
we need to modernize agriculture in terms that saving water is not
harmful, rather useful.
"Water is in the list of limited resources. Annually Armenia receives
seven billion cubic meters of water, of which, except the Sevan, we
collect 2-2.5 billion in dams, and the rest flows into the Caspian sea
through rivers, we can collect and use that as well," said Adibekyan,
adding that we need to create a systematized structure, which will
be responsible for the usage of those waters. "Agriculture is under
special care in the world, and here it is left to the will of the
fate, that's why the government faces critical situations once in a
while and decides to sacrifice either water from Lake Sevan or the
wellbeing of Ararat valley residents."
http://armenianow.com/society/environment/54950/armenia_sevan_water_resources_environmentalists
Environment | 04.06.14 | 16:42
By Gohar Abrahamyan
ArmeniaNow reporter
Environmentalists warn again that irrational use of water resources
noticeably harms the Armenian environment.
Still in April Armenian lawmakers voted 96 to 15, with 4 abstentions,
to adopt a controversial bill that allows additional water drainage
from Lake Sevan.
On Wednesday at a meeting with reporters the head of For Sustainable
Human Development NGO Karine Danielyan, addressing the problem of
water drainage from Lake Sevan, said that there is an obvious problem
of water shortage in the Ararat basin, but it is very wrong to solve
that problem on the account of the Sevan.
"In the Ararat valley it is very important to regulate fisheries'
actions, because they haven't been properly isolated and now there is
water waste, and swamps appear right in that region, in other parts,
at the same time, there is a threat of desertification. Water must
be used twice, before developing fisheries all conditions must be
studied," said Danielyan.
Head of the Sociometer sociological center Aharon Adibekyan said that
we need to modernize agriculture in terms that saving water is not
harmful, rather useful.
"Water is in the list of limited resources. Annually Armenia receives
seven billion cubic meters of water, of which, except the Sevan, we
collect 2-2.5 billion in dams, and the rest flows into the Caspian sea
through rivers, we can collect and use that as well," said Adibekyan,
adding that we need to create a systematized structure, which will
be responsible for the usage of those waters. "Agriculture is under
special care in the world, and here it is left to the will of the
fate, that's why the government faces critical situations once in a
while and decides to sacrifice either water from Lake Sevan or the
wellbeing of Ararat valley residents."
http://armenianow.com/society/environment/54950/armenia_sevan_water_resources_environmentalists