Water and Land Resources Use in the Aral Sea Basin
Knowledge Base includes the following sections:
• physical-geographical characteristics of the region;
• water resources;
• water resources use;
• desertification and monitoring;
• organizational and legal issues of water resources management and financing.
The knowledge base also includes the results of the past field studies on irrigation and drainage in the region (1960-1990).
Desertification Aral Sea and Prearalie
Integrated Water Resources Management: Central Asian Experience
This knowledge base is aimed at a wide range of specialists–water management professionals, including policy-makers in the water sector who define trends and meaning of modern reforms of water governance and management.
International and National Water Law
The Knowledge base contains the generalized information about the international water law and national water laws of the Central Asian states.
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.
Land Law
The Knowledge base contains the generalized information about national land laws of the Central Asian states.
Land law - the branch of the legal system, which consists of legal rules implementing legal regulation of certain social relations in public management, use and protection of land in order to ensure sustainable use of land resources.
Land reclamation and irrigated agriculture
The knowledge base covers all issues related to irrigated agriculture and reclamation, summarizing particularly the experience of the Central Asian states.
In Russian only
Waterworks Safety
This knowledge base deals with the safe and reliable operation of hydraulic structures, as well as mutually beneficial cooperation in this field relevant for the countries of Central Asia.
Water Quality
The knowledge base contains collection of books, reports, monographs, papers, standards, sanitary regulations concerning of water quality.
Gender and Water
The knowledge base contains information relevant for both the Central Asian republics and other regions on issues of gender equality and women’s role in water sector.
Afghanistan
The knowledge base contains collection of books, reports, monographs, papers, declarations, international agreements concerning of Afghanistan.