Uzbekistan, Tashkent – ​​Podrobno.uz News Agency. The Aral Sea in Kazakhstan continues to gradually fill. The Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation of Kazakhstan reported a significant increase in the total water volume in the Northern Aral Sea, which has received large flows via the Syr Darya River over the past ten months.
According to the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation of Kazakhstan, approximately 1.2 billion cubic meters of water have been released into the sea since October of last year, increasing the total volume in the water area to 23.4 billion cubic meters. At the height of the irrigation season, the inflow is currently 14 cubic meters per second, but by the end of the season, specialists expect to gradually increase this figure to 100-150 cubic meters per second.Â
To conserve water and gradually restore the local ecosystem, Astana is actively automating water resource accounting in the Syr Darya basin and reconstructing key hydroelectric facilities.Â
Coordination with neighboring states remains the most important factor in saving the reservoir. Last year, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan signed an agreement on the joint management and rational use of their shared rivers, and the positive results of this work to restore the Northern Aral Sea were previously noted by Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.Â
It was previously reported that Uzbekistan intends to transform the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS) into a key driver of regional integration. The country’s priorities during its chairmanship next year include developing and modernizing the Fund’s activities, aligning its agenda with the decisions of the Consultative Meetings of the Heads of State of Central Asia, and improving the effectiveness of its programs and projects.
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