Very soon, the country will be fully covered by the monitoring system, we will have complete information and the installation of early warning systems will be carried out in critical areas according to experts’ assessment, said today the Minister of Environment and Agriculture.

“We very actively started to develop the entire monitoring network across the country, especially in recent years. This process started in 2014. I want to emphasize that the monitoring system was completely broken in the country, we had neither meteorological stations nor hydrometeorological stations.

Two new, completely modern radars have been installed in western and eastern Georgia, this happened last year and the year before last, which gives us weather information, more than 200 hydrometeorological stations have been installed in recent years and this process is actively continuing.

Of course, we will bring these processes to the end. As far as early warning systems are concerned, this is a step further along with the assessments made by specialists.

Maps are being prepared and will be completed this year, which will give us more detailed information on the threatened areas, this process is consistent, monitoring, existing observations should allow experts, specialists to analyze where it is necessary to install relevant early warning systems.

Somewhere it may be effective, somewhere it may not be effective depending on the lack of time and space. Our Government started this process very actively, and I think very soon, the country will be fully covered by the monitoring system, we will have complete information and the installation of early warning systems will be carried out in critical areas according to experts’ assessment”, - said Otar Shamugia.