ArmInfo. The initiative "SOS Sevan" addressed an open letter to the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, asking to withdraw the bill approved by the government on additional water releases from the lake.

ArmInfo."Allow me not to answer this question," Armenian Minister of Agriculture Artur Khachatryan told reporters on August 23, when he was asked by journalists why the current government, which  had criticized the former government for  water release from Sevan, is doing the same after coming to power.

ArmInfo.Additional water intake from Lake Sevan will not be conducted until the permission of the National Assembly of Armenia is received, Minister of Agriculture of  Armenia Artur Khachatryan told journalists on August 2. In the  meantime, the State Committee on Water System of Armenia intends to  make an additional water release from Lake Sevan amounting to 2 40  million cubic meters, while the environmentalists are against, noting  the deplorable state of the main source of fresh water in the region  and the possible water apocalypse in the republic.

ArmInfo. Roman Melikyan, executive director of the NGO "Association of Renewable Energy Sources in Armenia", presented the results of his research in the activities of  small hydropower stations and efficient use of water resources in the Ministry of Nature Protection.

ArmInfo.Ecologist, water resources specialist Knarik Hovhannisyan is concerned about the state of water resources in Armenia. 

ArmInfo. Armenia has defined the criteria for assessing the environmental impact in the construction and operation of small hydroelectric power plants. The relevant resolution was approved at a government meeting on March 1.

ArmInfo. "Once again, we are convinced of the insolvency of our business executives in the issues of water management," the independent expert on water resources Ph.D.   Knarik Hovhannisyan said in a conversation with ArmInfo correspondent, commenting on the legislative initiative of the Armenian government to increase in 2017 the volume of water releases from Lake Sevan from 170 million cubic meters to 270 million cubic  meters.

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