Book Review - Implementing Integrated Water Resources Management in Central Asia

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tianbao Qin
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Water Resources Management ◽  
Integrated Water Resources Management ◽  
Resources Management

Of transboundary basins, integrated water resources management (IWRM) and second best solutions: the case of groundwater banking in Central Asia

Water Policy ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akmal Karimov ◽  
Mark Giordano ◽  
Aditi Mukherji ◽  
Vecheslav Borisov ◽  
Jamol Djumanov
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Water Resources Management ◽  
Integrated Water Resources Management ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Second Best ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Bilateral Action ◽  
Hydropower Production

This paper tells the story of trade-off between hydropower and irrigation and its implications for groundwater use in Syrdarya basin in Central Asia. With the independence of the central Asian republics, this trade-off has become a transboundary issue. Efforts to coordinate bilateral action using integrated water resources management (IWRM) principles of basin-wide cooperation have not yet yielded the hoped for results. This paper shows that there could be a ‘second best’ option of solving at least part of this transboundary problem by ‘banking’ winter flows released for hydropower production in Kyrgyzstan in the underground aquifers of Uzbekistan's Fergana Valley and extracting it for irrigation in the summer months.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document