Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
March 21 2015

Armenian environmentalists sound alarm over water resources of Lake Sevan

21 March 2015 – 9:26pm

Armenian environmentalists are concerned that the situation on 1
January 2015 with the water level in Lake Sevan has fallen by 9 cm
compared to the previous year.

The imbalance has occurred due to the fact that in 2014 the Armenian
government decided to increase the outflow from Lake Sevan to 70
million cubic meters.
The decision to increase the conductivity is related to the ruthless
exploitation of the Ararat artesian basin. In a year here it was
possible to take out 400 million cubic meters of water, but it took
away 1 billion cubic meters.

309 deep wells of the Ararat pools have been closed or sealed.
Environmentalists hope that these and other constraints on the actions
of reserves of the basin will gradually be restored.