IMU, Taliban Threaten Turkmen, Uzbek Water Resource
May 18th, 2013
Via Central Asia Online, an interesting report on Central Asian water tension: Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) militants are menacing an Afghan water resource valuable to Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, the Faryab Province police chief told Deutsche Welle (DW) in an interview published May 9. The militants in late April attacked three districts in Faryab Province, [...]
Read more »Central Asian Water Tensions: Solving Tajikistan’s Energy Crisis
March 26th, 2013
Courtesy of the Carnegie Endowment, a detailed look at the Central Asian water crisis and the linchpin Tajik energy crisis: In early November 2012, the government of Tajikistan announced that its national budget for 2013 would include 1.2 billion Tajik somoni (over $251 million) for the construction of the controversial Rogun Dam on the Vakhsh [...]
Read more »Sharing Central Asia’s Waters: The Case Of Afghanistan
January 20th, 2013
Via the International Water Law Project, a look at Afghanistan’s regional water issues: Afghanistan has four major river basins. All are international watercourses as that term is defined in the 1997 UN Convention on the Law of Non-navigable Uses of International Watercourses. When looking at the waters in Afghanistan the regional history cannot be ignored [...]
Read more »Water Tensions Overflow In Ex-Soviet Central Asia
November 21st, 2012
Via Terra Daily, a report on the water tensions of Central Asia: The ex-Soviet states of Central Asia are engaged in an increasingly bitter standoff over water resources, adding another element of instability to the volatile region neighbouring Afghanistan. Plans in mountainous but energy-poor Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan for two of the world’s biggest hydro-electric power [...]
Read more »Water In Central Asia: Past, Present, And Future
October 17th, 2012
Via Central Asia Notes, an interesting look at Central Asia’s water issues: Water management in Central Asia: state and impact Since ancient times, water has been an important resource in Central Asia. It has been used by Soviet and now independent states for different purposes. At present, all countries of the region continue using water [...]
Read more »Water Politics In Central Asia and Tajik Hopes Water Will Power Its Ambitions
October 14th, 2011
While not recent publications, two interesting reports on the state of water politics in Central Asia. The first, via AquaDoc, gives a taste of some of the difficult issues faced by the countries in the Syr Darya and Amu Darya basins, the two major streams in the Central Asia region: “…Regarding Central Asia, I have [...]
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