Sevan Needs To Be Rescued By The People

SEVAN NEEDS TO BE RESCUED BY THE PEOPLE

17:20 . 21/06

Again black clouds amass around the only source of freshwater in
our country-Lake Sevan. According to the government’s project it
is planned to emit 320mln cubic meters water from the lake. It is
explained by drought but the National Association of Consumers and a
number of NGOs are against the project. They unanimously state such
a decision is simply a mockery, there is no precedent for drought,
the calculations of the HydroÐ~et Service also prove it.

The representative of an Environmental Public Alliance Knarik
Hovhannisyan stresses years ago the whole people lived with the supply
of Lake Sevan, now it’s time for the people to save Lake Sevan.

“Now again the critical moment has come to emit water. The HydroÐ~et
Service and all the studies show there was no drought last time. The
problem is one- there is a plan to raise the water level by up to
5-6m and there is a reality, some profitable entities will appear
under water,” the chairman of the Association of Consumers of Armenia
Armen Poghosyan said.

“In case of emiting more than 170mln cubic meters the plan to raise
the water level is put to danger, but we have calculated 20cm level
rise,” the deputy chairman of the Commission on Lake Sevan Problems
under the president Levon Javadyan said.