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Environmental groups caution against overdevelopment of river resources in Central Asia
A CEE Bankwatch background report stressed that the evaporation of the Aral Sea was caused by extensive damming on the middle ...
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Uzbek Rice Farmers Face Water Shortages and Migrate
Rice is a pillar of Uzbekistan’s agriculture. But the climate crisis affecting the region’s two main rivers means that a ...
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The Taliban’s Canal
The full publication can be accessed here. The Qoshtepa Canal, currently under construction in Afghanistan on the Amu Darya River, will dramatically affect the availability of water for irrigation ...
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Sins of the Aral Sea
He’s also an environmental activist, chairing the Union for the Defense of the Aral Sea and Amu Darya. Heavyset, with a flowing mane of white hair, Kamalov descends from an influential Uzbek ...
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3,000 rarely-seen artifacts to go on show at museums in northeast Iran during Nowruz holidays
TEHRAN - North Khorasan’s cultural heritage museums are set to display approximately 3,000 historical artifacts during the ...
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Discovering Khiva, the walled city of Itchan Kala
It's a desert outpost that faces the orange desert of Turkmenistan on one side and the fertile river valley of Amu Darya in the distance on the other. Although Uzbekistan has become an ...
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Decline in terrestrial water storage (IMAGE)
Caption Time series of reconstructed terrestrial water storage anomalies (TWSA) and TWSA estimated from GRACE JPL-M over the (a) Amu Darya and (b) Indus basins. The red line shows GRACE ...
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Afghanistan signs oil extraction deal with Chinese company
Afghanistan’s Taliban-led Interim Government has signed a contract with a Chinese company to extract oil from the Amu Darya basin and develop an oil reserve in the country’s northern Sar-e Pul ...