YEREVAN. – The Ararat Valley may one day sink because quite a lot of high-pressure water has been taken out, Armenian Public Council member Vazgen Safaryan told Zhamanak daily, reflecting on the fish farming being conducted there and its disastrous consequences, the daily reported.  

“And days ago, [non-pro-government] Prosperous Armenia [Party] NA [i.e., National Assembly] Faction MP Lyova Khachatryan had told us that an 18-meter deep chasm had emerged at the Ararat Valley because the fish-farming companies working there are indiscriminately taking out artesian water, to develop their business. 

“And Safaryan told us: ‘The Public Council is of the view that fish farming [in Armenia] needs to develop not on the [account of] high-pressure water, but ground water. Otherwise, we will have a huge ecological damage,’” Zhamanak wrote.