Azerbaijan, Baku, Aug.13 / Trend J. Babayeva /
Georgia and Armenia continue polluting Azerbaijani transboundary rivers
The Azerbaijani Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry held a monitoring to study the level of pollution of transboundary over the first ten days of August. The ministry revealed out that the level of pollution the Kur and Araz Rivers by Georgia and Armenia exceeds the norm.
Amount of nutrients in the waters of the Kur exceeds the norm numerously due flow of domestic and industrial wastes from Georgia and Armenia to water facilities without preliminary treatment. Composition of specific contaminants of phenol and copper compounds exceeded the allowed density norm in water, the ministry said on Aug.13.
In the Shikhly-2 area content of phenols, one main pollutants of water, exceeded the allowed density by 4 times and ammonium ions by 1.3 times. Content of phenols exceeded the allowed density by 2 times and copper by 3 times in the Agstafachay area and 2 and 2 times respectively in Agstafachay reservoir.
According to the monitoring, content of copper in the water exceeded the allowed density twice and phenols by 3 times in Horadiz section of the Araz River transbordering with Armenia, 2 and 3 times respectively in the Shahsevan I and 3 times in Bahramtapa.
Azerbaijan ratified the Helsinki Convention on protection and use of water drainage and international lakes, passing the border to solve the problem of transboundary water basins at the regional level in accordance with international standards. The problem exacerbates the fact that Armenia and Georgia have not joined this convention.
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