V.A. Dukhovny. Water Resources Management in Central Asia – Achieving the Consensus between Water and Energy Sectors. - Tashkent: SIC ICWC, 2010. – 44 pp.
ISBN 978 601 278 383 4

Climate change, increased demographic pressure, and unilateral sectoral development combined with raised environmental awareness lead to aggravation of water relations in Central Asia. Although, at present, as a whole water should be enough for both irrigation, household and other needs, including hydropower, there is continuous tension around the issue of reconciling various water users, particularly upstream and downstream, within the space of Central Asia.
The unbiased assessment of situation related to water use is based on an information system and database. Such system operates successfully on the portal www.cawater-info.net. The system helps to make systematical analyses of water releases on annual, quarterly, and even ten-day basis and of water allocation among the states and planning zones. By using this feature, the experts from SIC ICWC have developed a forecasting tool as the set of models combined with various water-related development scenarios (climate, socio-economy, agriculture, water sector, and environment) that are integrated through the common interface.
The analysis and forecast by 2035 allows us to have future outlook and, at the same time, develop measures to ensure essential water supply for the regional development and the nature through enhanced cooperation, while keeping to the international water law principles, promoting water saving, and, especially, implementing integrated water resources management. Experience in promoting IWRM in the four provinces within the Ferghana Valley shows that the involvement of water users themselves, the use of all types of water, and the linkage of various water hierarchical levels and different sectors allows substantial reduction of water delivery, given some improvement in water and land productivities. Implementation of IWRM is a return to the century-old traditions and rules of an attitude of care to water and the equitable water allocation. The regional future rests with the countries and people of the region and no outside assistance could replace our local people’s attitude to water as to a holy thing.

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