World Wetlands Day 2025: Restoration and Protection of Ecosystems

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On February 2, 2025, the world celebrates World Wetlands Day, highlighting the crucial role of these ecosystems in preserving biodiversity, maintaining water balance, and mitigating climate change. The theme for 2025 – “Protecting Wetlands for Our Common Future” – emphasizes the need for protecting and restoring these vulnerable natural areas. Wetlands play a key role …

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Turkmenistan. «Drops of the Future». Role of Youth. Water – Food – Energy Nexus

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“Issues of water, energy, and food balance are among the most pressing in the region, where resources are limited, and challenges are complex. It is crucial to find a compromise between meeting population needs, preserving ecosystems, and ensuring sustainable development,” stated Zafar Makhmudov, the Executive Director of the Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia (CAREC) …

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International cooperation in the field of adaptation to climate change

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On January 30, 2025, the official launch ceremony of the project “Climate-resilient integrated water resources management in the Zarafshan River basin” was held, implemented with the support of the Government of Switzerland with the participation of the Ministry of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change of the Republic of Uzbekistan jointly with the Embassy of …

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Meeting the Vice Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan with the Delegation of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation under the Federal Department of Switzerland

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A meeting was held between the Vice Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Z. Aliyev, the Swiss Ambassador to Kazakhstan, S. Bal, and a delegation from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation under the Federal Department of Switzerland.   The main purpose of the meeting was to review the …

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A meeting of heads of water management and energy departments of Central Asia was held in Tashkent

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A meeting of the heads of water and energy departments of the Kyrgyz Republic, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan took place in Tashkent on January 27. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Energy of the Kyrgyz Republic. The meeting discussed water and energy cooperation to ensure electricity supplies to Kyrgyzstan in …

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Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov noted the coincidence of the positions of Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan on water issues

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The National Leader of the Turkmen people, Chairman of the Halk Maslahaty Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, during a telephone conversation with the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, noted that the positions of the countries have a fundamental coincidence on water issues, the State News Agency of Turkmenistan reports. “Water issues in the XXI century …

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Second Meeting of the Syr Darya River Basin Dialogue Held in Tashkent

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“We see that all Central Asian countries recognize the need to transition to the principles of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). However, differences in implementing reforms remain a barrier to full-fledged cooperation. Our task is to align these processes and ensure the harmonization of approaches at the basin level,” noted Zafar Makhmudov, Executive Director of …

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The volume of water in the Northern Aral Sea has reached 27 billion cubic meters

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Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Nurzhan Nurzhigitov summed up the results of the implementation of the first phase of the sea conservation project, Kazinform reports.  Photo: /kazaral.org As reported by the press service of the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, following the results of the first phase of the project to preserve the …

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A forest is being planted at the bottom of the dried-up Aral Sea

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National and private companies have been brought in to plant forests on the dried-out bottom of the Aral Sea, Kazinform reports. Photo: KATKO As reported by the Committee for Forestry and Wildlife of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources, an agreement was concluded with KATCO (a joint venture of the French state company Orano …

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