Citing the need to support a key agricultural region, the Armenian government has announced controversial plans to nearly double the use of water from the ecologically vital Lake Sevan for irrigation purposes this year.
Environmentalists warned on Friday that this could reverse a decade-long rise in Sevan's water level seen as critical for saving its endangered ecosystem.
The Hrazdan river flowing out of the mountainous lake has for decades supplied irrigation water to the fruit-growing Ararat Valley through a network of canals mostly built in Soviet times. This was a key reason for a drastic shrinkage of Armenia's main water reservoir that had begun in the 1950s.
Armenian News
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