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Criminal cases have opened against officials charged with embezzling funds allocated for construction and rehabilitation of water supply and wastewater networks in Kazakhstan’s Atyrau, Pavlodar and South Kazakhstan provinces, according to law enforcement agencies.
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The Prosecutor’s Office in Kazakhstan’s Almaty Province has found problems with water facilities in 200 inhabited areas in the province, including poor condition, mismanagement and unclear ownership. This is despite the $133 million USD investment pumped into the province’s water infrastrucure under the national Ak Bulak (Clean Water) and Drinking Water programs.
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The Water Resources Committee at Kazakhstan’s Agriculture Ministry has saved over $2 billion USD in the course of completing water supply projects since February 2012, committee chairman Islam Abishev said.
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Part of the money allocated for the completed Drinking Water Program and the Ak Bulak (Clean Water) program in Kazakhstan’s Atyrau province last year was embezzled, according to the Atyrau Prosecutors’ Office.
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Uzbek President Islam Karimov warned of possible future water wars in Central Asia and reproached neighboring countries for their plans to dam trans-boundary rivers for hydropower projects.
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Water supply companies in the Kazakh cities of Atryrau and Aktau, both on the Caspian Sea, this month started barring access to wastewater systems to apartment owners who have failed to pay their bills.
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Nine of the water supply plants in North Kazakhstan province are non-functional, according to Zauresh Kaparova, acting head of inspections for the provincial agency responsible for financial oversight.
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Uzbek President Islam Karimov this month approved the feasibility study for a $32.9 million USD project to rehabilitate a water intake facility and pipeline networks in the country’s Jizak province.
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Violations of the Drinking Water program cost Kazakhstan $34 million USD in 2011, according to Omarkhan Oksikbayev, chair of the Kazakh Accounts Committee, the organization that oversees implementation of the national budget. The violations were discovered during audits the Accounts Committee carried out recently in various regions of the country.
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15 May 2012- 15:23 by OOSKAnews Correspondent ASTANA, Kazakhstan An aging sewage collector laid at the bottom of the trans-boundary Irtysh River in Kazakhstan has degraded to the point where it must be replaced to avoid an environmental catastrophe, Kazakh environmentalists have warned. However,
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9 May 2012- 09:47 by Local Press Report ASTANA Central Asia Online Full Story- A project supported by the World Bank and Kazakhstani government helped contain mercury pollution from a defunct factory two kilometers from Temirtau. Between 1950 and 1997, a carbide factory produced synthetic rubber,
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East and North Kazakhstan provinces are upgrading their worn and aging sewerage and drainage networks. Last month Serik Bilyalov, governor of North Kazakhstan province, asked for $12.2 million USD from the national budget to rehabilitate a sewage collector in Petropavlovsk, the province’s capital city.
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25 Apr 2012- 12:22 by OOSKAnews Correspondent ASTANA, Kazakhstan More than half of the total of 7,231 inhabited localities in Kazakhstan do not have a stable water supply,according to the government committee charged with overseeing implementation of the national budget. Some 3,417 inhabited
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21 Mar 2012- 22:30 by OOSKAnews Correspondent ASTANA, Kazakhstan Members of Nur Otan, Kazakhstan’s largest political party, met with provincial legislators and officials earlier this month to discuss the poor drinking water situation in Kazakhstan’s Aktobe province. “Water quality directly affects
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7 Mar 2012- 16:22 by OOSKAnews Correspondent ASTANA, Kazakhstan Kazakh parliament member Mukhtar Tinikeev is pressuring the country’s prime minister, Karim Massimov, over the need to upgrade the Satpaev canal, which is the major source of domestic, industrial and agricultural water supply in
