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SEVAN WATER RELEASE MUST BE UNDER PERMANENT ATTENTION - ENVIRONMENTALISTS
17:57 * 27.10.14
The society must be kept informed of the daily quantity of water
release from Lake Sevan, environmentalists said today, expressing
their concerns over the damage caused to Hrazdan (Kotayk) in the wake
of a recent overflow.
Silva Adamyan said that she and a team of other environmentalists
have visited the village Jrarat which recently suffered big losses
due to an excessive quantity of water.
Addressing the problem, expert Seyran Minasyan stressed the need of a
higher publicity. "They have to inform us how much water they are have
taken from Sevan, likewise they report the air temperature every day.
For us. Sevan is of vital importance, so the society has the right
to know whether they release water within the set norms," he told
reporters.
Aram Grigoryan, another expert also attending the news conference,
said their studies in Jrarat did not prove very effective in terms
of finding out the causes of the excessive water release.
"We initially thought that they had released much water for energy
purposes, but studying the volume of the electric power produced by
the Hrazdan cascade, we saw that it didn't essentially differ from
the quantity observed in the previous months. We do not know whether
there are agricultural lands needing water; we didn't manage to find
that out, but it wasn't clearly a natural overflow. We think all
this was because of poor management which damaged many villagers'
potato and cabbage harvest. And no one feels responsibility," he noted.
Grigoryan said he doesn't think that the loss from poor-quality pipes
is likely to be reduced after repairs, without necessitating a further
increase in the quantity of legally permitted water release.
Armenian News - Tert.am
17:57 * 27.10.14
The society must be kept informed of the daily quantity of water
release from Lake Sevan, environmentalists said today, expressing
their concerns over the damage caused to Hrazdan (Kotayk) in the wake
of a recent overflow.
Silva Adamyan said that she and a team of other environmentalists
have visited the village Jrarat which recently suffered big losses
due to an excessive quantity of water.
Addressing the problem, expert Seyran Minasyan stressed the need of a
higher publicity. "They have to inform us how much water they are have
taken from Sevan, likewise they report the air temperature every day.
For us. Sevan is of vital importance, so the society has the right
to know whether they release water within the set norms," he told
reporters.
Aram Grigoryan, another expert also attending the news conference,
said their studies in Jrarat did not prove very effective in terms
of finding out the causes of the excessive water release.
"We initially thought that they had released much water for energy
purposes, but studying the volume of the electric power produced by
the Hrazdan cascade, we saw that it didn't essentially differ from
the quantity observed in the previous months. We do not know whether
there are agricultural lands needing water; we didn't manage to find
that out, but it wasn't clearly a natural overflow. We think all
this was because of poor management which damaged many villagers'
potato and cabbage harvest. And no one feels responsibility," he noted.
Grigoryan said he doesn't think that the loss from poor-quality pipes
is likely to be reduced after repairs, without necessitating a further
increase in the quantity of legally permitted water release.
Armenian News - Tert.am