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| Kyrgyzstan complains of critical shortage of irrigation water |
| 2021-06-12 |
| Direct translation of the article. Edited [REGNUM] The situation with irrigation water in Kyrgyzstan is critical, the most severe deficit is now in the Chui region. This was announced today, June 11, at a press conference by the director of the Association of Corn Growers Vitaly Kakshtyks. According to him, if now farmers do not regularly water corn and beets, they will go bankrupt, and farmers will have nothing to feed their livestock with. "Many agricultural producers took out loans with the expectation of a good harvest, but now all this may collapse. To get out of the current situation, you need to firmly take control of every liter of water," Kakshtyks emphasizes. In turn, the head of the largest agricultural cooperative in Kyrgyzstan, Rysbek Imanaliev, noted that back in the fall of 2020, agrarians predicted a critical shortage of irrigation water and called on the Ministry of Agriculture to start taking measures in advance to solve this problem. "Many peasants were unable to plow their land due to the drought last year. The current situation could have been foreseen," he said indignantly. To solve the problem of irrigation water shortage, Imanaliev proposes to rehabilitate the system of wells dug during the Soviet Union and equip them with the equipment necessary to automate the process of extracting water for irrigation. Historical background of the problem The problem of access to a limited resource in the countries of Turkestan aggravated almost immediately after the collapse of the USSR. The states located in the upper reaches of the main rivers - Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, are trying to use their positions for pressure and bargaining on Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. This problem was especially acute in Dushanbe and Tashkent. Tajikistan, obsessed with the idea of ​​building the Rogun hydroelectric power station, threatened to leave Uzbekistan without water necessary for agriculture. The issue has now been resolved. However, in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, there is a regular shortage of electricity associated with seasonal and dry periods, which occur every four to six years. According to experts, in the coming decades, the problem of water shortage in the Turkestan region should seriously worsen. Regnum.ru reported three days ago: Due to the drought, residents of Samarkand will be able to receive water only eight hours a day. This was reported on June 8 in the press service of the Samarkand Suv Taminoti (Samarkand Water Supply) company. Drinking water will be available to citizens from six to ten in the morning and from six to ten in the evening. The restoration of a stable water supply has not been reported. The restriction will apply to areas connected to two pumping stations. Earlier, the Uzsuvtaminot (Uzvodosnabzhenie) company reported that there is an acute shortage of drinking water in the Samarkand region. The reasons were the lack of precipitation and low water consumption in the bed of the Zarafshan River. |
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