STANDARDS AND NORMS ON QUALITY AND MANAGEMENT OF EFFECTIVE USAGE OF WATER RESOURCES OF SOUTH CAUCASUS TO BE WORKED OUT
Noyan Tapan
Aug 09 2006
YEREVAN, AUGUST 9, NOYAN TAPAN. The regional program "Application of
International Standards and Norms for Management of Water Resources
of Trans-Border Rivers Kura and Araks" which is implemented jointly
by public organizations of Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan, pursues
the goal of assisting effective management of water resources of
the Kura-Araks river system. In Armenia, it is implemented by the
Armenian Ecologists’ Union NGO with the assistance of the Eurasia
Foundation. Rafayel Hovhannisian, the organization chairman,
informed about it at the August 8 conference entitled "Problems
of Usage and Ecology of Water Resources of Trans-Border Rivers of
Kura and Araks." According to him, the program envisages working out
standards and norms on quality and on management of effective usage
of water resources of the South Caucasus, to create an internet
site "Kura-Araks." Creation of a computer geo-information s ystem
of water resources of the Kura-Araks system, and organization of a
national conference dedicated to social-ecological and water usage
problems existing in basins of those rivers, shooting of a video
film covering those problems, are also envisaged. R.Hovhannisian
beleives that after completion of the program, a similar program,
with participation of Turkey and Iran as well, would be purposeful
to implement, as many rivers of the Kura and Araks basins run or
start in those countries. Volodya Narimanian, the Deputy Chief of
the Water Resources Management Agency of the RA Ministry of Nature
Protection mentioned that the new Water Code defines modern methods
of management of water resources which envisage wide participation
of the society in those processes.
According to his estimation, work of public organizations gives
positive result in the management of water resources, not only national
but also trans-border ones.