REGIONAL EXPERIENCE IN SOLVING PROBLEMS OF WATER RESOURCES IN UZBEKISTAN

摘要

During the last ten years, water resources problems became particularly urgent in the Central Asian region. To solve that problem, heads of the five Central Asian states' water-economical ministries had meetings with each other and signed some agreements on coordinated water resources management. Therefore, in each republic, specifically in Uzbekistan, works conducted towards the improvement of water resources control. The Aral Sea basin, along with ones of Nile, Ind, Khuankhe and Mesopotamia, is one of the most ancient civilization centres of world history which have been risen based upon irrigated agriculture and water resources development. Two main rivers of the basin, Amudarya and Syrdarya, have been giving off their waters to the irrigation of arid desert oasis and to the Aral Sea from ancient times on. Data of average long-term natural flow of the rivers is stated in the report. At the present, five independent states are situated on the basin: the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan, with a total population of about 40 million people.