World Bank Financing to Help Improve Weather and Water Forecasting in Central Asia

WASHINGTON, August 1, 2018 – The Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan, which are highly prone to natural disasters and future climate change risks, will benefit from improved hydrometeorological services thanks to additional financing to the Central Asia Hydrometeorology Modernization Project (CAHMP). The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved US$ 11.5 million in additional loan …

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Best SLM practices for farmers

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http://www.cacilm.org/en/articles/detail/618%22 Land degradation in Central Asian countries is a serious threat, particularly considering the sizeable share of agriculture in these countries’ GDP. Causes of land degradation are not only in irrational use of water resources, but also in the legacy of the pre-independence (pre-1991) system of land management when maintenance of soil health was considered …

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Gender and Water in Central Asia

The objectives of the GWANET: improved gender awareness among the water sector stakeholders at regional, national and local levels through establishment of GWANET; strengthened capacity of the water sector stakeholders for incorporating gender dimensions into the decision-making process. Since ADB’s assistance program in the CARs includes a number of water related loan and TA projects, …

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Waterworks Safety

Water infrastructure in Central Asia consists of hundreds of reservoirs, dams, irrigation systems and pumping stations, a lot of channels and tens of multi-purpose waterworks facilities. There is the world’s highest rockfill dam – Nurek with height of 300 meters on the Vakhsh River in Tajikistan, and there is also one of the longest canals …

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Knowledge Base “International and National Water Law”

International water law concerns the rights and obligations that exist, primarily between States, for the management of transboundary water resources. Such legal rules and principles are dedicated to preventing conflict and promoting cooperation of shared water resources International water law has evolved and crystallized through state practice and the codification and progressive development efforts undertaken …

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Global watershed boundaries and sub-basin delineations derived from HydroSHEDS data at 15 second resolution

This documentation accompanies a series of polygon layers that depict watershed boundaries and sub-basin delineations at a global scale. The goal of this product is to provide a seamless global coverage of consistently sized and hierarchically nested sub-basins at different scales (from tens to millions of square kilometers), supported by a coding scheme that allows …

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