Azeri ministry says Armenia, Georgia responsible for pollution of river –
paper
Zerkalo, Baku
28 Jul 06
Azerbaijan is concerned at the pollution of the River Kur by Armenia
and Georgia because it uses water resource of this river for drinking
needs, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources said
in statement on 27 July, Zerkalo newspaper reported.
Arif Isgandarov, head of the department for the protection of nature
and ecology of the ministry, said that water samples from the river
showed that it was unsuitable for drinking.
The director of the centre for ecological forecasting, Telman
Zeynalov, does not think the ministry’s statement contains something
new. He thinks water in the River Kur has never conformed to
international standards. "The River Kur is polluted with sewage water,
wastes of different industrial enterprises on the territory of the two
states," the expert said.
He believes that drinking water must go through seven phases of
purification, but this amounts to four stages in our country and the
last phase is chlorine treatment from which the developed countries
have renounced long ago, the paper reported.