{"id":267772,"date":"2015-09-16T17:54:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T13:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=267772"},"modified":"2015-09-16T17:54:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T13:54:02","slug":"armenian-villagers-claim-shpps-deprive-them-of-irrigation-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/09\/16\/armenian-villagers-claim-shpps-deprive-them-of-irrigation-water.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Villagers Claim SHPPs Deprive Them of Irrigation Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The village of Angeghakot in the Armenian Syunik province has been deprived of irrigation water because of three small hydropower plants located above the village&#39;s fields, as reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/ecolur.org\/en\/news\/energy\/angeghakot-villagers-have-no-water-to-grow-potatoes-cause-isv-photos\/7650\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">EcoLur.org<\/span><\/a> on September 16. The SHPPs, which are not included in the administrative area of Angeghakot village, but use the water of Spandaryan reservoir from where Angeghakot gets its irrigation water. As a result, villagers told EcoLur, the village has lost some of its main sources of income.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;We don&rsquo;t have irrigation water, so this year people were unable to water potatoes. The water canal is located above our fields, it&rsquo;s our old canal from where we take our water and irrigate our land areas. Now because of the SHPPs there is not enough water,&rdquo; one of the villagers said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn an interview with EcoLur, Angeghakot village head, however, said the irrigation problems are not caused by the SHPPs, but the Spandaryan reservoir, which is in a poor condition.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&quot;We have appealed to the relevant authorities to have the canal rehabilitated since Angeghakot only receives 40 liters out of 1cum\/s entering the canal. That&#39;s Angeghakot&#39;s main issue,&rdquo; the village head stated.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We have appealed to the relevant authorities to have the canal rehabilitated since Angeghakot only receives 40 liters out of 1cum\/s entering the canal. That&#8217;s Angeghakot&#8217;s main issue,\u201d the village head stated&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":267768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[62434,62435,62436,19444],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}