Choo Valley is a zone of developed irrigated agriculture due to favorable soil and climatic conditions. The valley encompasses one third of the national irrigated area. Regarding water resources, in spring, there is shortage of water in case of low precipitation, especially in mountain sources. The irrigation sources are characterized by wide variations of water flows in terms of season and during a day.
Choo Water Management Organization controls 8 district (rayon) water management divisions and 17 hydro-sites. With the help of its lower organizations, ChBWMO diverts and supplies water and controls its use, as well as regulates inter-rayon and inter-republic distribution of water among sources in the Chooy river basin.
Choo BWMO supplies irrigation water to 319.7 thousand hectares of irrigated land. The state irrigation fund under responsibility of Choo BWMO is comprised of 1548 km of inter-farm canals, 2057 hydraulic structures, 1179 gauging stations, 1 pump station, 804 km of collector-drainage network, 26 reservoirs with a useful capacity of 184 Mm3, and 28 daily and decade runoff ponds, with the useful capacity of 35.15 Mm3.

At present, out of 319.7 thousand ha of the Choo province’s irrigated area:
• 238.85 thousand ha or 75% are in good condition;
• 28.49 thousand ha or 9% are satisfactory;
• 52.5 thousand ha or 16% 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.

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Phone: (996 312) 48 31 29
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