Water resources reduce in Armenia

The Public Council reported Saturday to the Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan about the necessity of passing from traditional stream fish breeding systems of Ararat valley to partially closed water usage system.

Public Council member Yuri Javadyan, chairman of the Agricultural and Nature Protection Affairs Commission, told the reporters that at the meeting with the president they briefed on the issue of usage of Ararat valley’s water resources.

“The permitted volume of usage is 1 billion 226 million cubic meters while today more resources are being used for fish breeding and irrigation purposes in particular,” he said.

“We have stream resources reaching 6.3 billion cubic meters, while we manage to use just 2.5 billion in all the branches, losing the 3.7,” Javadyan stressed.

“The main problem is the speedy consumption of water. We propose creation of automatical management systems to reduce the risks and getting an opportunity to conduct right water management,” he said.

Referring to the fish economies, Javadyan said the 70% of water return principal should be applied here. “The proposals were discussed and will be presented to the government. A special program will be worked out. All this should be done in a year as today the consumption of the resources is very speedy causing complications for us and the fish economies as well. They will be deprived of water,” he said.

Javadyan said 122 wells out of 300 near Metsamor have been dried out while the water generation in 17 wells in Masis has reduced 5.5 times.

“It would have been possible to prevent all this on time in case of having right management,” Javadyan said.