Once the fourth largest lake (the Aral Sea) in the world, it has become a deadly desert. Located between Uzbekistan and ...

Once a shimmering 68,000-square-kilometer (26,000-square-mile) inland sea straddling Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, the Aral Sea ...

Before the 1960s, the fourth largest lake on Earth glistened for miles across the borders of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. By ...

Agricultural irrigation expanded from 4.5 million to 7 million hectares, significantly increasing water demand and reducing the inflow from the Syr Darya and Amu Darya rivers, which once sustained the ...

This initiative, developed by HRC, focused on riverine flood forecasting and landslide susceptibility mapping in the Amu Darya and Syr Darya Basins. 2019-2023: The CREWS Afghanistan project built upon ...

ASTANA — Kazakhstan will receive 11 billion cubic meters of water by April, following agreements with Central Asian countries, as Kazakh Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Nurzhan Nurzhigitov ...

Conversely, the development of irrigation-based agriculture along the Amu Darya and Syr Darya river basins in southern KAZ, UZB, and TKM has resulted in land salinization, further decreasing ...

A step was taken in enhancing cooperation between Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, as two important documents were signed by the foreign ministers of both countries on January 27. Photo: Foreign ministers ...

The key idea of the project is to improve the livelihoods of rural population in the Tajik Syr Darya Basin Zone (TSDBZ) through integrated water resources management, at the same time assisting the ...

Fed by the mighty Syr Darya and Amu Darya, rivers known by the Classical Greeks as the Jaxartes and Oxus, their diversion led the sea to empty, split into a northern and southern half, and shrink ...

In 2024 alone, authorities directed 2.6 billion cubic metres of water from the Syr Darya river into the northern part, reducing the salinity of the water by a factor of almost four and promoting ...

In 2024 alone, authorities directed 2.6 billion cubic metres of water from the Syr Darya river into the northern part, reducing the salinity of the water by a factor of almost four and promoting ...