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    ARMENIAN RIVERS ARE DANGEROUS

    [02:46 pm] 07 April, 2006

    The results of the investigation realized by the Ministry of Ecology
    about the level of pollution of the Armenian rivers show that the
    level of substances dissolved in the water of the Armenian rivers
    exceeds the allowed norms several times.

    The basin of the river Debed is especially highly polluted. In the
    samples from the river Akhtala the levels of aluminum, zinc and copper
    are exceeded by 159.5, 408.4 and 932 times. And the levels of
    manganese, lead and iron are exceeded by 67.2, 11 and 16 times. The
    same can be seen in the other rivers.

    These numbers are not simply violations but they affect the human
    health directly. But in this case not only the people but the whole
    environment suffers from the river pollution. The accumulations of
    lead, aluminum and other metals are especially dangerous. `Heavy
    metal is dangerous as it can be accumulated in the human organism',
    biologist Susanna Hakobyan says.

    As we know, the water of the rivers is used fro irrigation. Factually
    the water intoxicates the plants and animals first, and then people.
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