Fish farms in Ararat valley cut water consumption by one billion cubic meters

Fish farms in the Ararat region of Armenia have reduced water consumption by 1 billion cubic meters, Vahan Davtyan, the head of an agency in charge of water resources management, said at a press conference on Thursday. br / br /

YEREVAN, March 22. /ARKA/. Fish farms in the Ararat region of Armenia have reduced water consumption by 1 billion cubic meters, Vahan Davtyan, the head of an agency in charge of water resources management, said at a press conference on Thursday.nbsp;br

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He said water consumption has dropped from 2.5 billion cubic meters in 2013 to 1.5 billion cubic meters now. He said the drop in water consumption is not caused by a government's campaign to shut down illegal wells in the Ararat valley which were consuming huge amounts of artesian water for local fish farms.br

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According to Davtyan, fish farms will have to install water-saving systems. He said a pilot program on installation of such A system was already underway. He added that the agency succeeded last year in savings 5,000 liters of water per second, which is 23% of the total volume of groundwater consumed by the fish farms in the Ararat region. -0-br

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