Osh province is located in the South Kyrgyzstan in south-east of the Fergana Valley, bordering upon Uzbekistan in the north, Tajikistan in the west, and China in south-east.
Major irrigation schemes of the Osh province occupy intermountain troughs and valleys. The irrigation sources are mountain rivers, streams, reservoirs built in troughs, and partially artesian wells and springs. Almost all provincial rivers are the tributaries of the Syrdarya river and only some are the tributaries of the Amudarya river and of the Tarim river basin. Furthermore, the province has inter-republican systems, such as Ak-Bura, Karadarya, SFC, Karkidon, and Isphairam.
Differences in natural, climatic, and economic characteristics of the irrigated areas have an effect on patterns of operation and reconstruction in irrigation systems and on crop irrigation techniques.
Osh BWMO consists of 7 district (rayon) water management divisions, 2 canal authorities, and 1 hydrological site.
Osh BWMO is responsible for 1203.14 km of public large canals with the command area of 129.2 thousand ha, 19.2 km of collector and drainage network, 988 hydrostructures, 540 gauging stations, and 9 pump stations.

Out of 129.2 thousand ha of the province’s irrigated area:
• 123.4 thousand ha or 95% are in good condition;
• 2.3 thousand ha or 2% are satisfactory;
• 3.5 thousand ha or 3% are unsatisfactory.

The list of functions and mandate at the provincial level includes the following:
• Organization of operation of the state irrigation and drainage network, canals, diversion, regulating and other hydraulic structures, pump stations, wells, reservoirs, power-supply lines, transforming stations and other elements of the state water infrastructure in order to improve their performance and reduce process water losses.
• Construction, reconstruction, and modernization of water-management and nature-protection systems and structures.
• Adoption of new automation, telecontrol and water control facilities and measures for their effective application.
• Development of draft perspective and annual forecast-plans for efficient water resources use.
• Design and survey work for other ministries and departments, according to state orders and through contracts with local authorities, peasant and individual farms, agricultural cooperative and other economic entities.
• Organization of development of water-management balances, perspective multipurpose water resources plans for river basins, irrigation systems, rayons and province as a whole.
• Control over technical state, use and repair of earth-moving machines, vehicles, and other machinery.
• Monitoring over availability of state pump stations, supervision over the state of pump stations and correction of their operation rules, as well as energy management.
• Estimation of needs for spare parts for smooth operation of pump stations and pressure pipelines.
• Control over implementation of current and capital repairs of pump stations, power equipment, earth-moving machines, vehicles, and mechanisms.
• Qualifying evaluation of operating staff from operations department.
B.234, Kurmanjan Datka str., Osh, 714000, Kyrgyz Republic
Phone: (996 3222) 5-76-25
Fax: (996 3222) 5-91-72