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Gagik Tadevosyan, the co-author of Armenian Law “On Lake Sevan”, the Chairman of the Standing Committee on Social, Health and Environmental Issues from 1999 to 2003 at the National Assembly, has addressed an open letter to the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan to stop all the projects regarding Lake Sevan.
The letter says, “...The establishment of 74 fish farms for artificial fish breeding on the shores of Lake Sevan, which will result in filling annually 5000 tons of artificial forage in the forms of nitrogen, phosphorus and other chemical mixtures, which will promote waterlogging in the lake, a vivid example of adversary effect prescribed in the law. Besides this, there is a proposal to increase water outlet by 70 million square meters, i.e. to make 170 million square meters 240 million square meters, which is a deadly hazard for the lake, as we will lose our strategic reserve of the freshwater and we will finally lose the lake. In general, stopping lake level increase will promote its waterlogging, as even increase by 6 meters won’t save the situation, we will deal with the irreversible loss of Lake Sevan ecosystem..."
March 11, 2014 at 15:29