Government allocated 208 million drams to clean up the shoreline of  Lake Sevan

ArmInfo. The Ministry of Environment has allocated  208.2 million drams for the implementation of a project to clean up  the flooded shoreline of Lake Sevan. This was stated today by Acting  Minister of Environment Romanos Petrosyan during a meeting dedicated  to the opening of the tourist season on the lake.

He noted that more powerful technical means and other relevant  specialized equipment were mobilized for the implementation of the  lake cleaning project. In the near future, the project will be  submitted for discussion to the Government.

The acting  minister expressed his dissatisfaction with the current  quality of work to preserve the ecological situation in the Sevan  basin. In this regard, administrative steps were taken, including  personnel. The acting minister called on his colleagues from the  Sevan National Park to unite around one common idea, to do everything  possible to implement it.

It should be reminded that last year Armenia spent about 6.015  billion drams (about 12 million US dollars) on the implementation of  5 programs and 29 measures in the field of the environment. Special  attention was paid to Lake Sevan. The implementation of a  comprehensive program for the restoration of ishkhan (Sevan trout)  stocks and the development of fish farming in the lake has begun.  As  Nikol Pashinyan said earlier, in July 2021, the water level of Lake  Sevan will be the highest in the last 60 years. According to him, in  fact, this is the result of a completely new quality of water  resources management. As explained by the acting head of government,  in 2020, the water intake from the lake for energy and land  reclamation purposes was 22.8 million cubic meters less, but more  land was irrigated by 4,800 hectares. One of the reasons - "no one  began to make millions on the release of water from the lake." "If  you talk with knowledgeable people in the field of energy, they will  say that one centimeter of the water level in Sevan is about one  million dollars," he said.