`Thanks to’ Turkey, Armenia’s Ararat Valley could have water problem – newspaper
NEWS.AM
March 23, 2013 | 08:17
YEREVAN. – Armenia’s AraratValley could face a serious water problem,
Haykakan Zhamanak daily reports.
`The reason is that Turkey is constructing
1.5-billion-cubic-meter-capacity reservoirs at the upper parts of
AraxRiver, [but] not near the border [with Armenia].
Chairman Vladimir Movsisyan of the [Armenian Presidential] Expert
Committee on Protection of Lake Sevan said 88 million cubic meters of
water is already collected from Arax River in these reservoirs, [and]
the construction of the others is in progress.
`Today the average annual water capacity of AraxRiver constitutes
2,200,000,000 [cubic meters]. If we reduce two billion by 1.5 billion,
Ararat Plain would have serious water problems. The [Armenian]
government has set up two committees in this direction. We are
preparing our proposals and carrying out counter measures, so that we
would not have a water problem in the AraxRiver basin,’ Vladimir
Movsisyan said,’ Haykakan Zhamanak writes.
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