Transboundary environmental problems of Middle Asia: application of the international legal mechanisms for their solution

Friday, 11 February 2011

International conference "Transboundary environmental problems of Middle Asia: application of the international legal mechanisms for their solution" Tashkent, November 16-17, 2010 Increasing scarcity of water resources is posing more challenges to the humanity in the way ‘water’ has to be managed. This gets more complex in respect of ‘Transboundary Rivers’ particularly in closed basin situations. The scale of complexities in the basins and watersheds differ from one to another depending upon the past practices, social and cultural situations, agreed allotments if any, and shares formal or otherwise. This is nevertheless a highly dynamic process. New and emerging drivers particularly new political situations emerging out of creation of new Stats by division of an existing system introduce fresh complexities. More often than not, this results in a new parochial approach that focuses on individual states’ interests that might acutely conflict the riparian interests, as it obtain. This is seen more prominently in respect of sharing the Central Asian Rivers - Syr Darya and Abu Darya soon after the collapse of USSR. The earlier allocation rules and practices in these basins stand challenged. The environmental c consequences to the Aral Sea (and its basins as a whole) are to be seen in the light of this perspective. Download full version: www.eco.uz

 

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