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Caspian Sea: At Risk of Desertification
August 21st, 2024
Via Central Asian Bureau for Analytical Reporting, a report on the Caspian Sea: In November-December 2023, Beda organized the research group ?????? / SUSPENDED MATTER focused on exploring the environmental policies of the Soviet Union and their long-term consequences in Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and the South Caucasus. One notable outcome of the group’s work […]
Read more »Largest Joint Water Project of Iran, Azerbaijan to Come on Stream Soon
May 7th, 2024
Via Tasnim News, an article on the pending operationalization of the Qiz Qalasi Dam, the largest joint water project between Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan: The chief executive of Iran’s East Azerbaijan Regional Water Company said the Qiz Qalasi Dam, the largest joint water project between Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan, will become […]
Read more »Dam Building and Water Tensions in the Caucasus
January 15th, 2022
Via Eurasianet, a report on dam building and rising water tensions in the Caucusus: Among many other threats, global climate change promises unprecedented water variability in the South Caucasus. The region is facing increasingly erratic rainfall and snowmelt, which is endangering drinking supplies, agricultural output, and hydropower generation. This is made still more complicated by […]
Read more »Don’t Water It Down: The Role of Water Security in the Armenia-Azerbaijan War
January 15th, 2022
Via Eurasianet, a look at how water disputes helped escalate the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict into all-out war and how – left unaddressed – they pose the same risk again: Just three months after the end of last year’s war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, President Ilham Aliyev traveled to the Lachin district for a photo-op at the […]
Read more »Lake Urmiya in Iranian Azerbaijan May Soon Cease to Exist
December 12th, 2021
Via Window on Eurasia, a report on the Lake Urmiya: Yasir Rakhbardin, who is in charge of water supplies in the Iranian province of Western Azerbaijan, says that Lake Urmiya, on which the region has long depended, may soon cease to exist, a development that will likely produce both a humanitarian disaster and more conflict […]
Read more »Kazakhstan Ratifies Protocol on Caspian Sea
November 1st, 2021
Via The Frontier Post, an article on the Caspian Sea: The President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev, signed a law on the ratification of the protocol on the protection of the Caspian from pollution from land sources and as a result of activities carried out on land to the Framework Convention for the Protection of the […]
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