20TH SITTING OF CIS COUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL COOPERATION SUCCESS

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Oct 29 2007

YEREVAN, October 29. /ARKA/. National Water cadastre will be formed
in Armenia, said Head of Water Resources Management Department of the
Ecology Ministry Svetlana Vardanyan during the regional conference
on the water issues and sanitary.

She said that 90% of formation of water cadastre is completed. The
main task of the cadastre is to accumulate information on water
resources and relations in this sphere.

"Today we have rather discrete information about the water resources,
however this structure will allow forming a united information field,"
Vardanyan said.

According to the data of the Ministry, there are 9480 small and middle
rivers in the territory of Armenia the length of which is 23,000km.

The annual flow of these rivers totals 7.2bln cubic meters, 3bln cubic
meters of which are underground waters, and 30-40ln cubic meters fall
to the rivers Araks and Akhuryan.

The regional conference on the issues of water supply and sanitary
"Cooperation for implementing millennium challenges in Armenia"
was held in Yerevan on October 27.

The conference was dedicated to the issues of rural economy and
implementation of the aims for millennium developments that deal
with the issues of stable development, in particular, issues of water
supply and improvement of hygienic conditions.

The conference was organized by the NGO "Armenian women for health and
healthy environment" and supported by the international organization
"Women in Europe for a common future" (Holland).