Tajikistan

Aral Sea

Rivers and Topography

Kyrgyzstan

Kazakhstan

Afghanistan

Turkmenistan

Uzbekistan

Sir Darya (river)

Amu Darya (river)

In 1948, a top-secret Soviet bioweaponslaboratopy was established on the Island in the middle of the Aral Sea, named as Vozrozhdeniya island. The base was abandoned in 1992 following the disintegration of the Soviet Army. Today, Vozrozhdeniye island as the siteof the former Soviet biological warfare waste dump and the island is nolonger isolated from the surrounding region and land bridge has now formed between Vozrozhdeniye and the Uzbek/Kazakh mainland.

Uzbekistan’s Health Problems

Aral Sea Statistics(1980,1995,2003,2009)

Drier and shorter summers and in longer and colder winters.

Growing season has been shortened to 170 days (200 needed for cotton production) Precipitation decreased by a factor of 10

Pollution effect: aresoles into atmosphere, promotes glacial melting

1- Demand 2- Non renewable natural resources3-Renewable natural resources4-Clean and potable water resources5-Surplus of resources6-Shortage of resources

SUSTAINABILITY AND NATURAL RESOURCES ISSUES:DEMAND AND SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

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Suburb area 180 180 150 150 150 150

Surrounding villages 170 192 180 170 160 160

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ARAL SEA DISASTER: SUSTAINABLE WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN CENTRAL ASIA

Dr. Abror Gadaev, Samarkand State Architectural &Civil Engineering Institute, Water Supply, Water Resources Management

and Protection Department, agadaev@hotmail.com. Ms. Nargiza Juraeva, Ms.Gulmira Boboeva, Dr.Salim Saidov Water Supply, Water Resources Management and Protection Department, 70 Lolazor Street, Samarkand, UZBEKISTAN, 140147

Background

Social issues;Environmental problems;Demography and labor problems;Climate change.

Consequences: Research approach

Analysis:

Results:

The main issue is the Aral Sea disaster and its consequences

Challenge Samarkand water supply system rehabilitation:

Water supply network of the city of Samarkand is 700 km and about 41% of the network is aged and it my require replacement or comprehensive rehabilitation. There are number of water users without water meters and they use treated drinking water for the irrigation system in parks and agricultural purposes. One of the main issues in the water supply system is the significant water loss. Among the reasons for this deficiency, the leakage of water in the conveyance pipelines is considered the main cause. The pipelines need rehabilitation and/or replacement.

Samarkand water supply system needs to improve the safety, quality, reliability, efficiency and sustainability of the water supply services.

Samarkand does have sufficient quantities of potable ground water to meet municipal needs, however several factors impede this possibilities.

The factors are:

· Irrational using of existing water intake and pump stations; · Misuse of potable water;

· Aged infrastructure and leakage; · Water technicians need to be trained in management and rational use of water resources;

At the present the government of Uzbekistan working on Samarkand Water Supply project that totally improved the situation in the city. Samarkand

Water Supply project financed by the Republic of Uzbekistan, Samarkand water supply Utilities with a loan of WB, IDA and IBRD.

Results: Water demand is reducing by keeping a high level of the life standards in the city.

This program is relatively new and has not published a complete report on their methods of research. However, they do have a summary published which states that

between existing natural resources and their demand should be a sustainable management and water resources are in the target.

The main goals of the innovation agenda are:

· Gather important Uzbekistan and later Central Asian (CA) /international actors in a joint effort to partly renew the way water and water resources management in

urban and rural areas;

· Bring Uzbek and other CA environmental actors in key sectors, such as rural economy and energy into the sustainable water production and supply arena;

· Combine to a greater extent environmental competence with technical competence in water production and in this way fertilize innovation in the water production

sector;

Increasingly make use of surplus water streams, industrial waste water streams and urban waste waters (e.g. treated waste water, circulated reusing waters) to be recycled

into the urban and rural water supply system with sustainable and environmentally safe technology using approach;