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Confluence Beyond Borders in a Changing Climate: Dialogue for Cooperation in Central Asia and Afghanistan
April 9th, 2026

Courtesy of SIWI, a new report examining water cooperation in Central Asia and Afghanistan: The region of Central Asia and Afghanistan faces growing water insecurity and natural hazards amidst a rapidly changing climate with rising temperatures, extreme weather events, and glacial melt affecting the volume, peak, and variability of river flows. Increased water scarcity and […]

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Why the Aral Sea’s Restoration Matters Beyond Central Asia
April 3rd, 2026

Via The Diplomat, a report on how the Aral Sea’s story demonstrates how human actions can profoundly alter natural systems, yet it also shows that determined cooperation can begin to repair environmental damage that once seemed irreversible: Few environmental disasters illustrate the consequences of human mismanagement as starkly as the fate of the Aral Sea. Once the […]

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Qosh-Tepa Looks Like a Disaster. Uzbekistan Thinks Otherwise.
April 3rd, 2026

Via Havli substack, commentary on how Central Asian countries are able to use their position as power exporters for leverage as Taliban-run Afghanistan presses ahead with an ambitious canal project. If Shavkat Khamroyev is feeling nervous these days, he is doing a good job of hiding it. After all, Uzbekistan’s water resources minister would have […]

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