The Aral Sea Basin Water for Sustainable Development in Central Asia

This book offers the first multidisciplinary overview of water resources issues and management in the Aral Sea Basin, covering both the Amu Darya and Syr Darya River Basins. The two main rivers of Amu Darya and Syr Darya and their tributaries comprise the Aral Sea Basin area and are the lifeline for about 70 million inhabitants in Central Asia. Written by regional and international experts, this book critically examines the current state, trends and future of water resources management and development in this major part of the Central Asia region. It brings together insights on the history of water management in the region, surface and groundwater assessment, issues of transboundary water management and environmental degradation and restoration, and an overview of the importance of water for the key economic sectors and overall socio-economic development of Central Asian countries, as well as of hydro politics in the region. The book also focusses on the future of water sector development in the Basin, including a review of local and international actors, as well as an analysis of the current status and progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals by Basin countries. The book will be essential reading for those interested in sea basin management, environmental policy in Central Asia and water resource management more widely. It will also act as a reference source for decision-makers in state agencies, as well as a background source of information for NGOs. Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138348882_oachapter08.pdf

Foreword by Guyzgeldi Bayjanov 1. Introduction Stefanos Xenarios, Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt, Manzoor Qadir, Barbara Janusz-Pawletta, Iskandar Abdullaev and Vladimir Smakhtin 2. History of Water Management in the Aral Sea Basin Iskandar Abdullaev, Kai Wegerich and Jusipbek Kazbekov 3. Surface Water Resources Kakhramon Djumaboev, Oyture Anarbekov, Bunyod Holmatov, Ahmad Hamidov, Zafar Gafurov, Makhliyo Murzaeva, Janez Sušnik, Shreedhar Maskey, Hamid Mehmood and Vladimir Smakhtin 4. Groundwater resources Abror Gafurov, Vadim Yapiyev, Mohamed Ahmed, Jay Sagin, Ali Torabi Haghighi, Aigul Akylbekova and Bjørn Kløve 5. Hydropower Frank Schrader, Anvar Kamolidinov, Maksud Bekhanov, Murodbek Laljebaev and Stella Tsani 6. Environmental Degradation Alisher Mirzabaev, Jamal Annagylyjova and Iroda Amirova 7. Water for Agriculture and other Economic Sectors Asel Murzakulova, Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt, Dagmar Balla, Dietrich Darr, Ahmad Hamidov, Ulan Kasymov, Roman Mendelevitch and Serik Orazgaliyev 8. The Status and Role of the alpine Cryosphere in Central Asia Martin Hoelzle, Martina Barandun, Tobias Bolch, Joel Fiddes, Abror Gafurov, Veruska Muccione, Tomas Saks and Maria Shaghedanova 9. Transboundary Water Management Marton Krasznai 10. Local and national institutions and policies governing water resources management Manon Cassara, Jelle Beekma, Lucia de Strasser, Oyture Anarbekov, Makhliyo Murzaeva, Sara Giska and Andrei Dörre 11. International actors and initiatives for sustainable water management Jenniver Sehring, Dinara Ziganshina, Marton Krasznai and Thijs Stoffelen 12. The Future of Water Resources Saghit Ibatullin and Dinara Ziganshina 13. Implementing Water-Related Sustainable Development Goals Aziza Baubekova and Anastasia Kvasha

Stefanos Xenarios is Associate Professor in Nazarbayev University (NU), Graduate School of Public Policy, based in Nur-Sultan, Astana, Kazakhstan. Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt is Honorary Professor at the Chair of Silviculture, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, Freiburg University, Germany. Manzoor Qadir is Assistant Director in United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Barbara Janusz-Pawletta is UNESCO Chair Holder in Water Management at the Central Asia Kazakh-German University, Almaty, Kazakhstan. Iskandar Abdullaev isformer Executive Director of the Regional Environmental Centre Central Asia (CAREC), based in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and the current Deputy Director of the CAREC Institute, Urumchi, China.