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Petrov G. - The Conflict of Interests Between Hydropower Engineering and Irrigation in the Central Asia: The Reasons and the Overcoming Way. |
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Written by Erkin Turdibaev
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Tuesday, 18 April 2017 |
All basic rivers in the Central Asia (CА) are transboundary and are used simultaneously by the several countries of region in several areas of economy - basically in irrigation and hydropower engineering. The first branch is traditional, it exist some millennium, and the second is in a development stage: the first hydroelectric power stations (HPS) in CА have been constructed in the middle of the last century. The present structure of a water management in CА (both in irrigation and in hydropower engineering) has been created at times of the USSR, in the conditions of extensively developing economy. As is known, the similar way of economic development has led to serious environmental problems from which accident of Aral Sea became the most considerable. After formation in 1991 in CА five independent sovereign states the situation in water sphere has even more become aggravated. The conflict between interests irrigation, developed basically in the countries of the bottom current (Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) and hydropower engineering, in which the countries of formation of a water drain are interested mainly (Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan) has got interstate value. These two spheres demand different modes of regulation of a runoff by reservoirs: the hydropower engineering is interested in accumulation of water in the summer and its use in the winter (in most power-deficit period), and irrigation, on the contrary, is deal with accumulation of water in the winter and its use during the summer vegetation period.
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