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Where the river used to flow, there’s a knee-deep ditch lined by ... And still, without changes on a massive scale, in the lower Amu Darya basin even those who do their best to save water may not see ...
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The Taliban’s Canal
In addition to their already existing water challenges, the Amu Darya River basin and Central Asia are experiencing a far ...
However, “Turkmenistan actually relies solely on the Amu Darya river basin and does not get water from the Syr Darya basin (unlike Uzbekistan, which does),” explained Taganova. “The ...
The Amu Darya Basin Inspection Unit, created in cooperation with WWF, managed to save hundreds of hectares of forests in the Amu Darya river basin. How many trees can be logged by a group of 12 if ...
Satellite imagery released this week by NASA shows that the eastern basin of the freshwater body ... associated with diversion of Amu Darya [river] to the Caspian Sea," Philip Micklin, an Aral ...
In the Indus river basin, snow persistence fell 23.3% below normal this year although this was offset by excesses in parts of the lower altitudes. Outside India, the basin of the Amu Darya river ...
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, August 21. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) plans to grant a loan of $180 million for the resilient Amu Darya river basin sector development program in Uzbekistan ...
The Amu Darya, one of two main rivers that for millennia fed the now rapidly shrinking Aral Sea, no longer does. Reporting by VOA along the length of the river in Uzbekistan has confirmed that ...
It's been called the Nile of Central Asia. The Amu Darya River flows for thousands of miles through four countries and eventually spills into the shrinking Aral Sea. Now a canal being built by the ...