If You Want to Develop Tourism, Clean the Sewage of Lake Sevan. The Lake is Turning Green, Blue, and Rotting, Says Environmentalist

Environmentalist Tamar Galstyan wrote on her Facebook page: "If you want to develop tourism (and you really do), build a sewage treatment plant for the Lake Sevan basin. In the 21st century, the sewage from the cities, villages, hotels, and restaurants around the lake flows directly into it. The lake is turning green, blue, and rotting.

Fix the roads of the country. When you ask anyone, they say that the worst roads are in our area. Install modern toilets across the country, so that visiting foreigners do not have to relieve themselves behind roadside bushes.

Collect the trash in the country so that we don’t turn the ground into a landfill. Build equipped landfills so that waste does not fill the ravines. Ensure that tourists do not see the smoking landfills around the cities from afar. Design pastures for animals with clear boundaries to preserve both livestock grazing and wildlife.

What more can I say... Wherever you look, something is not right."