Azerbaijan assesses current condition in rivers

The National Monitoring Department on Environment of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources (MENR) implemented the next monitoring for the purpose of review of the contamination level of Kura and Aras transboundary rivers, as well as transboundary affluences of them.

Water consumption in Kura river held 120 m3/sec in the first decade of January, decreasing 19 m3/sec in relation to the third decade of December. According to the results of the monitorings, the amount of bio substances in Kura river was considerably more than norm due to domestic wastes and slops of industrial enterprises discharged directly to water objects without purification from the territories of Georgia and Armenia. Phenols and copper compounds as specific contaminants in the water composition exceeded the admissible turbidity level.

In this regard, phenols and copper compounds surpassed the admissible turbidity level thrice and quadruple in Shikli-2 settlement, fourfold in Agstafachay settlement, while twice and thrice in Agstafachay reservoir.

According to the outcomes of the monitorings conducted in the first decade of January, phenols and copper compounds outnumbered the admissible turbidity level thrice and twice in Horadiz settlement, twice and thrice in I Shahsevan settlement, while twice and four times in Bahramtapa settlement respectively regarding Aras river. The water oxygen regime oscillated within the sanitary norm in all settlements containing 6.35-9.50 mg/l.


/Today.Az/