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Chief of Party for the Regional Water and Vulnerable Environment (WAVE) activity

Reliefweb 02 Sep 2021
The USAID Regional Water and Vulnerable Environment (WAVE) activity promotes economic stability and prosperity, and healthy ecosystems by strengthening regional capacity to manage shared water resources and mitigate environmental risks in the Syr Darya and Amu Darya river basins, ...
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The Demands On Central Asia's Great Naryn And Syr Darya Rivers

Radio Free Europe 07 Aug 2021
... hundreds of kilometers downstream to meet the Kara Darya and form Central Asia's longest river, the Syr Darya.
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Climate change is shortening Central Asia's growing season study

Beijing News 28 Jul 2021
Climate change is rapidly shortening Central Asia's growing season, says a new analysis of vegetation data from the past two decades ... But the reverse is happening in most of Central Asia ... (Wu et al.) ... The most significantly impacted areas were central and western Kazakhstan and the Syr Darya basin shared by southern Kazakhstan and eastern Uzbekistan.
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Why you should care about Kazakhstan: The drought nobody is talking about could be a ...

Russia Today 28 Jul 2021
In a world plagued by a pandemic, some stories get left behind. One that has escaped headlines, probably understandably, is the Kazakh government’s new six-month ban on exporting food for livestock, insisting produce stay at home ... Of course, Kazakhstan is not alone ... The key links between the mountains and the plains are the Amu and Syr Darya rivers ... .
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Climate change is shortening Central Asia’s growing season – study

EurasiaNet 27 Jul 2021
Climate change is rapidly shortening Central Asia's growing season, says a new analysis of vegetation data from the past two decades ... But the reverse is happening in most of Central Asia ... (Wu et al.) ... The most significantly impacted areas were central and western Kazakhstan and the Syr Darya basin shared by southern Kazakhstan and eastern Uzbekistan ... .
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Kumtor: the gold mine that could make or break Kyrgyzstan

Open Democracy 22 Jun 2021
Kamila Eshaliyeva. 22 June 2021, 12.00am. The glaciers near Kumtor are widely thought to be threatened by mining activity, including waste ... Together with another river, the Karadarya, the Naryn forms the Syr Darya, one of the main river arteries in Central Asia that crosses Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, eventually flowing into the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan.
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Kyrgyzstan: Government provides little comfort to drought-hit farmers

EurasiaNet 17 Jun 2021
[But] we must be fair,” he said ... No water, no power ... Similar quid pro quo arrangements have been reached with Tajikistan, which Kozhaniyazov said could expect to be supplied with financially commensurate amounts of machinery and fuel for releasing an additional 300-400 million cubic meters of water into the lower reaches of the Syr Darya ... .
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Tajikistan shares irrigation water with Kazakhstan

Beijing News 03 Jun 2021
The water will be delivered via Kyrgyzstan to Kazakhstan's Turkestan and Kyzylorda regions ... This year, levels of the Syr Darya River, one of Central Asia's two main water courses, dropped by almost one-third, which is more than usual. Lack of water is threatening to plunge Kazakhstan's south into drought and cause devastation to harvests in the area.
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This Day in History (April 28)

Kayhan 27 Apr 2021
1799 solar years ago, on this day in 242 AD, Ardashir I (Artaxerxes), the Founder of the Sassanid Persian Empire, died after a reign of 18 years, and was succeeded by his son, Shapur I ... He traced his descent to the savage Mongol conqueror, Chingiz Khan, and reigned from 1911 to 30 August 1920 over an area between the Amu Darya and Syr Darya Rivers.
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This Day in History (April 8)

Kayhan 07 Apr 2021
Of mixed Punic and Syrian descent, he was named Lucius Septimius Bassianus on his birth in Lyon, France, to Emperor Septimius Severus ... Born in Fanakat (or Banakat), a town on the upper Syr Darya or River Jaxartes in what was then Qara Khitai kingdom, he joined the service of the Mongols when they conquered his homeland ... 1,2,3,4,5 etc.) ... ....
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Paradise Gardens–Their Islamic and Indic versions are still thriving on earth

The Siasat Daily 02 Apr 2021
Even though the Quran does not describe the layout of a garden, the four rivers of water, wine, milk and honey equated with the Saihan (Syr Darya), Jaihan (Amu Darya), Furat (Euphrates) and Nil (Nile) are construed to be a depiction of a compartmentalized garden on earth—the ...
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Toxic secrets behind your mobile phone: Electric cars, wind turbines and solar panels... how our ...

The Daily Mail 23 Jan 2021
This is how I reached the Weikuang Dam – an artificial lake into which metallic intestines regurgitate torrents of black water from the nearby refineries ... He said ... Screen ... In 2015, researchers from South Kazakhstan State University discovered that chrome-mining was responsible for colossal pollution of the Syr Darya, the longest river in Central Asia.
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VOLUNTARY ANNOUNCEMENT ENTERING INTO AN EPC CONTRACT FOR THE 1,500MW GAS-FIRED COMBINED-CYCLE INDEPENDENT POWER GENERATION PROJECT IN SYR DARYA, UZBEKISTAN BY A SUBSIDIARY OF THE COMPANY (CEEC - China Energy Engineering Corp Ltd)

Public Technologies 04 Jan 2021
ENTERING INTO AN EPC CONTRACT FOR THE 1,500MW GAS-FIREDCOMBINED-CYCLE INDEPENDENT POWER GENERATION PROJECT IN SYR DARYA, UZBEKISTAN BY A SUBSIDIARY OF THE COMPANY ... project in Syr Darya, Uzbekistan (the "Project"). The Project is situated in Syr Darya, Uzbekistan.
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Climate Change Caused Demise of Central Asia’s River Civilizations, Not Genghis Khan

Heritage Daily 17 Dec 2020
The research focused on the archaeological sites and irrigation canals of the Otrar oasis, a UNESCO World Heritage site that was once a Silk Road trade hub located at the meeting point of the Syr Darya and Arys rivers in present southern Kazakhstan ... Header Image – Researchers investigate an abandoned medieval canal, Otrar oasis, Kazakhstan.

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