The commission published data separately for Central Asia’s two major water sources, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers. Turkmenistan was the largest consumer of the Amu Darya’s resources ...

Back then, the Aral Sea's two main sources of fresh water were the Syr Darya and the Amu Darya, rivers that fed the salt lake with fresh water and maintained this basin in a mostly arid region.

The climate crisis affecting the region’s two main rivers means that a shallower Amu Darya River is forcing farmers to leave traditional rice-growing areas and move to the banks of the Syr Darya River ...