What a crappy infographic, the difference between the minimum and maximum area is 0.018%.
And on the graph, the difference seems huge
HyeSteve on
That chart is telling a story but am not sure what they want to say. The y axis should have started at 0 to get a true picture of lake levels. I created charts in my job and would never have done that. It’s not that it’s not true but it could be misleading. We have a saying. “There are lies, damn lies, and statistics “
T-nash on
Ridiculous if anything, I had hoped this year would have been a major increase, but as others pointed out the rivers mostly flow outside, though reservoirs are now more full, even those aren’t couldn’t completely fill up.
If next year is as bad as 2023, this year’s rains would be mostly wasted. Hopefully one day it will go to 1920’s levels.
GiragosOdaryan on
Akhurian, the largest artificial reservoir in the country, holds 525 million cubic meters of water, shared by treaty with Turkey. To put Sevan’s scale in perspective, a rise of 0.42 meters would contain the equivalent of the Akhurian(each meter rise adds 1.25 cubic km). And this can be accomplished without the cost of hundreds of millions of USD to build a new reservoir, since the means of transporting that water currently exists.
Sevan is arguably the single greatest geological resource in the region, and the Moscow/Baku/Ankara axis knows it. All that’s required to raise its level significantly is the political will. Giterdun.
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Dreadful. What happened in 2016?
What a crappy infographic, the difference between the minimum and maximum area is 0.018%.
And on the graph, the difference seems huge
That chart is telling a story but am not sure what they want to say. The y axis should have started at 0 to get a true picture of lake levels. I created charts in my job and would never have done that. It’s not that it’s not true but it could be misleading. We have a saying. “There are lies, damn lies, and statistics “
Ridiculous if anything, I had hoped this year would have been a major increase, but as others pointed out the rivers mostly flow outside, though reservoirs are now more full, even those aren’t couldn’t completely fill up.
If next year is as bad as 2023, this year’s rains would be mostly wasted. Hopefully one day it will go to 1920’s levels.
Akhurian, the largest artificial reservoir in the country, holds 525 million cubic meters of water, shared by treaty with Turkey. To put Sevan’s scale in perspective, a rise of 0.42 meters would contain the equivalent of the Akhurian(each meter rise adds 1.25 cubic km). And this can be accomplished without the cost of hundreds of millions of USD to build a new reservoir, since the means of transporting that water currently exists.
Sevan is arguably the single greatest geological resource in the region, and the Moscow/Baku/Ankara axis knows it. All that’s required to raise its level significantly is the political will. Giterdun.