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During the session of the Scientific and Technical Council adjacent to the Minister of Nature Protection of the RA questions about the methodology of calculating environmental flow in the rivers were discussed. Vilen Sargsyan, Doctor of Technical Sciences and professor, reported that in the framework of "Clean Energy and Water" project the new methodology of calculating the environmental flow in the rivers developed with the support of the United States Agency for International Development unlike the one already existing will allow to calculate environmental flow every month. According to the new methodology the environmental flow in the rivers will be more than it is by the current methodology. The speaker informed that the works are in the final stage but the working group has difficulties because they don't have all the statistics for the last 40 years necessary to calculate the flow of the rivers in Armenia.
The RA Minister of Nature protection Aramayis Grigoryan instructed the head of the Water Resource Management Agency to get the necessary information applying to the authorized state body.
July 18, 2015 at 18:42