Contamination of Azerbaijan's transboundary rivers exceeds norm

The ministry revealed that the level of contamination in the Kura and Aras Rivers by Georgia and Armenia exceeded the norm.

Amount of nutrients in the waters of Kura exceeded the norm numerously due flow of domestic and industrial wastes from Georgia and Armenia to water facilities without preliminary purification.

Composition of specific contaminants of phenol and copper compounds exceeded the allowed density norm in water, the ministry said.

In the Shikhly-2 area content of phenols exceeded the allowed density by 6 times and copper compounds by 7 times. Content of phenols and copper exceeded the allowed density by 7 times in the Agstafachay area and phenols by 6 times and copper compounds by 8 times in Agstafachay reservoir.

According to the monitoring, content of copper and phenols in the water exceed the allowed density by 4 times in Horadiz section of the Araz River transbordering with Armenia.

The content of copper exceeded the norms by 4 times and phenols by 3times in the Shahsevan I and 4 times and 2 times, respectively in Bahramtapa.

Azerbaijan ratified the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes to solve the problem of transboundary water basins at the regional level in accordance with international standards. The problem is exacerbates the fact that Armenia and Georgia have not joined this convention.

/Trend News/