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By Laman Ismayilova

The National Monitoring Department on Environment of the Azerbaijani Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry carried out the next monitoring for the third decade of January.

Water consumption in Kura river held 134m3/sec in the third decade of January increasing 1m3/sec in relation to the second decade of January.

The amount of bio substances were considerably more than norm due to domestic wastes and slops of industrial institutions discharged directly to water objects without purification from the territories of Georgia and Armenia.

Phenol and copper compounds as specific contaminants in the water component exceeded the admissible turbidity level. In this regard phenols and copper compounds exceeded the turbidity level trice and five fold in Shikhli 2 settlement, thrice and fourfold in Aghstafachay settlement, thrice and twice in Aghstafachay.

In third decade of January within Araz river phenols and copper compounds exceeded the turbidity level twice, twice and one fold in Horadiz settlement, trice and trice in I Shahsevan settlement, twice and twice in Bahramtapa settlement respectively. The water oxygen regime changed within the sanitary norm in all settlements being about 5.92-6.45mg/l.

Phenol is considered one the most toxic types of industrial waste, which enters water bodies mainly from factories’ sewage.

Overall, the Department periodically checks the pollution level of the transboundary rivers, and the results often exceed the permissible level due to the fault of the neighboring countries where the rivers start.

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