Two new water reservoirs to be built in Armenia
Two new water reservoirs with a total capacity of over 90 million cubic meters of water will be built in the Armenian provinces of Shirak and Armavir, Arsen Harutyunyan, the head of the State Water Committee, said to journalists on Thursday.
He said the construction of the reservoir in Kapsa (Shirak province) will be in two stages: in the first stage a $60 million worth reservoir with the capacity of 25 million cubic meters will be built and in the second stage its capacity will increase to 60 million cubic meters. According to him, a tender for its construction will be announced in 2018 and the construction will kick off in the following year.
"The reservoir will serve not only the Shirak region, but also some communities of the Aragatsotn region," Harutyunyan said. He said the construction of the second reservoir with a capacity of 10.3 million cubic meters will be implemented in the Armavir region. "In the near future, we will announce a tender for the design of the reservoir, and we plan to launch its construction in 2019," he said.
There are 80 water reservoirs in the country with a total capacity of 1.1 billion cubic meters, which contain now 570 million cubic meters of irrigation water. -0-