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Emomali Rahmon: Tajikistan’s Hydropower Future
August 18th, 2013
Via the Emerging Frontiers blog, an interesting look at Tajikistan’s water plans: Resource poor, water-rich Tajikistan sees hydropower as a future asset. Tajik President Emomali Rahmon Wednesday inaugurated a $33.2 million, 220 kilowatt substation upgrade at the Nurek hydroelectric station on the Vakhsh River. The Nurek hydroelectric cascade currently provides energy to about 80 percent […]
Read more »Kyrgyz Block Water to Kazakhstan, Demanding the Return of “Their†Land
July 17th, 2013
Via Global Voices Online, an interesting commentary on water dispute in Central Asia: During the enforced brotherhood of communism, land and water were not a source of friction for the peoples of Soviet Central Asia. Over the course of two decades of sovereignty, however, arguments over the delimitation of national borders and access to trans-boundary […]
Read more »Water Issues In Kazakhstan
July 17th, 2013
Via the Silk Road Intelligencer, an interesting article on water in Kazakhstan: Kazakhstan is not the first country that comes to mind when discussing water politics. In Central Asia, this topic is more often associated with Uzbekistan, which uses more water annually than it has, and Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, which are both located upstream from […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Rivers Threatened As China, Kazakhstan Water Pact Remains Elusive
July 2nd, 2013
Via Radio Free Asia, a report on increasing tensions over rivers in Central Asia: Industrial plants and other development projects in China’s northwest region of Xinjiang are hampering the flow of two key rivers into neighboring Kazakhstan and dumping hazardous chemicals into them as the two countries appear to be far from reaching agreement on […]
Read more »Kyrgyrstan: Kambar Ata Will Not Impact Kazakhstan Or Uzbekistan
April 20th, 2013
Via Hydroworld, a brief article on Kyrgyrstan’s contentious Kambar Ata dams: Launch of both Kambar-Ata hydropower plants will allow to additionally produce up to 6.3 billion kWh of power annually. This will meet the country’s highest power needs in winter time and will allow export of excess power throughout vegetation period, power engineer Alexey Zyrianov […]
Read more »Water Deficit In Kazakhstan May Increase Threefold By 2050
April 17th, 2013
Via Azer News, a look at Kazakhstan’s water future: The water shortage in Kazakhstan may increase significantly by 2050, Minister of Environmental Protection Nurlan Kapparov said on Friday at the conference on Building a green economy in Kazakhstan. “The water shortage in Kazakhstan will grow. Our country is already dependent on transboundary waters. We receive […]
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