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Construction of water supply system in the occupied Shusha district
│Photo from www.himnadram.org │ 2013
In September 2014, ArmWaterProject Company’s director, Yuri Javadyan, travelled to the
occupied territories to meet with A.Harutyunyan and to present a project of the Sarsang water
reservoir’s water usage for irrigation of some 18,000 hectares of agricultural lands. 389 To note,
before the occupation, the water from that reservoir with the capacity of 560 thousand m³ was
used to irrigate some 80,1 thousands hectares in the downstream Tartar, Aghdam, Barda and
Goranboy districts of Azerbaijan.
Hayastan All-Armenian Fund financed full
reconstruction of the water supply system of
the town of Lachyn. Within that project, new
pumps were installed in each of the six wells,
the pumping station was equipped with new
and modern equipment and 1115m long water
main pipeline was reconstructed. The project
also included the rehabilitation of the daily
regulation reservoirs and the construction of
a nearly 27km long new internal distribution
network. The project was completed in 2011.
Within the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund’s
“Shushi” development initiative, the water
supply system in the occupied town of Shusha
A Swiss businessman Vartan Sirmakes (centre) visits the
construction site of the new water reservoir in the occupied Lachyn
district
│Photo from www.tert.am│23 July 2015
was constructed. That included the rehabilitation of the water purification station, the daily
regulation reservoirs, as well as the construction of a new reservoir and distribution network that
covered all the districts of the town of Shusha. The project was completed in 2012. 390
In July 2015, CEO of the “M.Energo-L CJSC” Alexander Mamounts informed that, at the initiative
and investment of a Swiss businessman Vartan Sirmakes, a new water reservoir is being built
at the intersection of the Hakari and Zabukhchay rivers in the occupied Lachyn district. The
reservoir’s project was designed by the ArmWaterProject Company Ltd., which designed
Armenia’s all major irrigation systems. 391 It is expected to be the second largest reservoir in the
occupied territories, after the Sarsang Reservoir, and will store some 12 million m³ of water. The
project envisages the construction of one of the largest among the small hydro power plants built
in the occupied territories with power generation capacity of 30 million kW/h. 392 Construction
works are expected to be completed in two years. Exploitation of the reservoir is aimed at
expanding the irrigation system in those territories. The reservoir will also be used for building
fish breeding enterprise. 393
389
See “The Prime Minister discussed prospects of Talish’s development”, Artsakhpress.am, 30 May 2014, .
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392
See “Swiss-Armenian businessman will fund the construction of a large dam in Artsakh”, 1tv.am, 24 July 2015, .
393
See “A new water reservoir being built in Kashatagh”, Artsakhpress.am, 28 July 2015, ;
“Nagorno-Karabakh president visits Kashatagh region”, Tert.am, 23 July 2015,
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