Water consumption in Kura river increases

The Azerbaijani Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry held regular monitoring of pollution in the transboundary Kur and Araz Rivers during the second decade of March, the ministry reported.

During the second decade of March, water consumption in the Kur River increased from 231 cubic meters per second to 387 cubic meters per second compared to the first decade of March. The monitoring found that phenol and copper are strong pollutants. Biogenic substances exceeded the normal points where the river is subjected to transboundary contamination in Georgia and Armenia.

The monitoring revealed that phenol exceeds norms by 3 times, while cooper twice in the Shikhli-2 point and Agstafachay point. Also monitoring revealed that phenol and copper exceeds norms by twice in the Agstafachay reservoir.

Water consumption in the Araz River was 262 cubic meters per second. The monitoring revealed that phenol exceeds norms by 3 times, while cooper 4 times in the point and twice and three times, respectively, in the Bahramptapa point.

The water's oxygen regime at all points remained at the corridor of 5.60-6.17 milligrams per liter.


/Trend/