LAKE SEVAN PROBLEM: WHAT WILL WE DRINK TOMORROW?

Panorama.am
18:28 03/09/2008

Lake Sevan is a regional strategic reserve of fresh water. "We must
take into consideration the fact that the whole world is facing the
problem of lack of fresh water. Therefore, we should maintain our
own reserves with great common sense," chief lecturer of the Chair
of Ecology and Ethnocultural Tourism of Armenian Russian (Slavonic)
University and the co-author of the main plan of Sevan National Park
Gagik Sukhudyan said at the press-conference.

According to Sukhudyan, the impediment of the heightening of lake’s
water level is threatening its ecological system first. "The oil,
that black liquid has blinded everybody. The fresh water is a real
value, and we had enough of it for the country, but it suddenly
turned out that the water level of Sevan was to be decreased," the
specialist added.

According to G.Sukhudyan, on account of water level decrease people
save territories and cities and even develop the industry. The
specialist claims artificial decrease of Sevan’s water level will
spoil the whole reserve of fresh water.

"In many Eastern the countries fresh water is more expensive than
petrol or diesel. We are facing the problem of lack of fresh water,
but we can avoid it, in case we improve our mistakes," Sukhudyan added.

Note that according to Sughudyan, National Assembly’s decision
on doubling of Sevan’s water level decrease has no scientific
investigation grounds.