TURKISH-ARMENIAN RESERVOIR TO BE BUILT
Lragir.am
9 Aug 06
Armenia is planning to build a reservoir together with Turkey in
the place where the rivers Araxes and Akhuryan join, announced Yury
Javadyan during the conference on the problems of use and preservation
of water resources of the rivers Araxes and Kura, reports the news
agency ARKA.
Yury Javadyan also announced that the reservoir will have a complex
purpose, namely water power generation, prevention of floods, dams.
Every years floods damage 500 hectares of farming land, and Armenia
spends an annual 1 million dollars on reconstruction, and "the
construction of the reservoir will essentially reduce the danger
of floods."
An annual 3.45 billion cu m of water flows via the part of the Arxes
river where the Turkish-Armenian border passes. And Armenia and Turkey
have experience in cooperation in this sphere, from Soviet years,
of course. The 525 million cu m reservoir on the Akhuryan river has
operated since the 1980s.