EU NEIGHBOURS. On 31 January, the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Armenia and the EU will present the newly renovated Laboratory of the Environmental Monitoring and Information Centre (EMIC) in Yerevan.
The festive ceremony will mark the opening of new laboratory facilities provided within the EU-funded project ‘European Union Water Initiative Plus for Eastern Partnership Countries’ (EUWI+).
Thanks to the recent technological upgrade and renovation, the laboratory now conducts state-of-the-art water analysis which advances the protection of water and river basins in Armenia.
The new devices are able to detect anthropogenic contaminations, like nutrients and salts, in lower concentrations and with much higher precision.
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This will eventually reduce the risk for people, ecosystems and water-using economic sectors of suffering from the toxic effects of anthropogenic contaminations and mismanagement of water bodies.
The equipment provided by the European Union (totaling about €0.4 million) and related expert training will bring Armenia closer to attaining international laboratory norms.
