Abstract
Nowadays water availability has become the crucial issue in many countries of Central Asia. The uneven territorial spreading of water resources and their insufficiency and permanently growing water consumption create rivalry in water demand at the national and regional levels. Water deficit and deteriorating water quality are the serious challenges that have been faced by many countries of this region. The key issue for stabilizing the situation inside Central Asia is to find ways to increase available resources.
In some countries the possibilities for inter-basin transfers of river flow and rational water management within a territory have been nearly exhausted which forces to initiate studies and to launch projects on joint use of water resources based on inter-zonal (interstate) river flow transfers.
Analysis of the dynamics and forecasts of water consumption proves that in the coming millennium, mankind will be preoccupied with finding solutions to water resource problems. For the world community, this will be a period of mutually beneficial joint use of water resources by states on the basis of large-scale inter-zonal conveyance of water from water surplus rivers to water-deficit regions.
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A.G. Kostianoy was partially supported in the framework of the P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS budgetary financing (Project N 149-2019-0004).
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Zonn, I.S., Kostianoy, A.G., Semenov, A.V. (2020). Water Resource Transfer in Central Asia: Projects, Results, and Perspectives. In: Zonn, I., Zhiltsov, S., Kostianoy, A., Semenov, A. (eds) Water Resources Management in Central Asia. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol 105. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2020_600
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