120 MILLION CUBIC METERS OF WATER TO BE LET OUT OF LAKE SEVAN FOR IRRIGATION THIS YEAR

Noyan Tapan
May 10 2007

YEREVAN, MAY 10, NOYAN TAPAN. At the May 10 sitting, the Armenian
government made a decision to set the amount of water to be let out
of Lake Sevan during the 2007 irrigation season at 120 million cubic
meters. The water will be let out for Sevan-Hrazdan irrigation-energy
and Lake Sevan’s mechanical irrigation purposes. The minister of
nature protection and the chairman of the state water industry
committee of the RA ministry of territorial governance received
respective instructions.

Chairman of the state water industry committee Andranik Andreasian
told reporters after the sitting that in case of greater demand,
it is possible to let out another 50 million cubic meters of water
from Sevan. According to him, the necessary reserves of water have
already been stored in the country’s reservoirs.

A. Andreasian said that 3.2 bln drams was collected for irrigation
water supplied last year, which exceeds by 200 mln drams the 2006
index. Subsidies of a total of 5.42 bln drams were allocated from the
2007 state budget for current expenditures of the irrigation system.