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Central Asia’s Energy Transition Depends on Water Security
September 3rd, 2026
Via The Diplomat, a look at how a more integrated and flexible power system could give Central Asian states greater room to manage drought, hydropower volatility, and competing demands for water: Central Asia is building a new energy system. Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan are rapidly expanding solar and wind generation and battery storage, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan […]
Read more »Growing Water Shortages in Central Asia Threaten Region and its Neighbors
June 17th, 2026
Via Jamestown, a look at the growing water shortages in Central Asia: Executive Summary: Water shortages in Central Asia have become so severe that they can no longer be resolved by water-sharing agreements between the so-called “water surplus” upstream countries of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan and the “water short” downstream countries. This crisis is undermining not […]
Read more »Drought May Test Central Asia’s New Cooperative Approach
March 4th, 2026
Via The Diplomat, a look at whether the new ties that bind Central Asian countries strong enough to weather drought? Every year, rain and snow that falls in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan provides water for millions within their borders. Winter snow in the mountains melts in spring to fill hydropower reservoirs. Summer rain waters crops. But […]
Read more »Central Asia’s Melting Glaciers
September 17th, 2024
Via Terra Daily, a report on the concern arising from Central Asia’s melting glaciers: Near a wooden hut high up in the Kyrgyz mountains, scientist Gulbara Omorova walked to a pile of grey rocks, reminiscing how the same spot was a glacier just a few years ago.At an altitude of 4,000 metres, the 35-year-old researcher […]
Read more »Central Asia Leaders Call For Joint Policy On Water
August 12th, 2024
Via Terra Daily, an article on Central Asian water issues: Central Asian leaders met in Kazakhstan Friday to seek to agree a shared policy on water management in a region where the scarce resource causes frequent disputes.Interruptions to water supplies are a regular occurrence in the five ex-Soviet Central Asian countries — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, […]
Read more »Worrying Water Levels at Kyrgyzstan’s Critical Toktogul Reservoir
March 5th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a report on the worrying water levels at Kyrgyzstan’s critical Toktogul Reservoir where water levels have dropped closer to a concerning ‘dead’ level: Kyrgyzstan’s Deputy Minister of Energy Taalaibek Baygaziev has once again called for consumers to be mindful of their electricity usage as water levels in the Toktogul reservoir drop. In […]
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