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12 Jun 2017- 10:43 by OOSKAnews Correspondent NEW YORK NY, United States United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited the Aral Sea, June 10 – once the world's fourth largest inland sea, that has now shrunk to about a quarter of its original size due to human mismanagement –
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4 May 2016- 11:30 by OOSKAnews Correspondent CORVALLIS, OR, United States A new assessment of the world’s trans-boundary river basins by the United Nations Environmental Group (UNEP) has identified “hotspots” for potential conflict in the next 15 to 30 years. The Transboundary Waters Assessment
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10 Jun 2015- 10:55 by OOSKAnews Correspondent DUSHANBE, Tajikistan UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon this week urged Central Asian nations to forge a consensus on management of shared water resources. In his opening remarks at a high-level international conference on “Implementation of the
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23 Jan 2015- 10:49 by Local Press Report KOTTAYAM The Hindu Bishop Thomas Oommen, Deputy Moderator of the Church of South India (CSI), has warned against the proposed Pamba-Vypar-Achankoil linking project which, according to him, would push Kuttanad into an environmental catastrophe similar to the
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6 Nov 2014- 10:53 by OOSKAnews Correspondent MOSCOW, Russia Afghanistan could start withdrawing a much greater volume of water from the Amu Darya River to irrigate its farms, uner a project funded by Arab nations, a Russian analyst said this week. Yevgeniy Satanovskiy, president of the Moscow-based
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9 Apr 2014- 10:29 by Local Press Report NUKUS Eurasia.net "I’m going for a swim," says Pelle Bendz, a 52-year-old Swede, as he rummages in the jeep for his bathing trunks. The other tourists look at him, bewildered. What’s left of the Aral Sea is reputed to be a toxic stew, contaminated
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21 Feb 2014- 10:10 by OOSKAnews Correspondent ROME, Italy Central Asian countries need to invest more in the agricultural sector-- particularly in modernizing irrigation systems-- in order to reduce poverty and hunger in the region, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
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26 Aug 2013- 10:02 by OOSKAnews Correspondent DUSHANBE, Tajikistan Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan took a unified stance on water use and other environmental issues in the region when leaders of both countries met during the International Conference on Water Cooperation in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe,
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21 Jun 2013- 10:06 by OOSKAnews Correspondent MOSCOW, Russia The Director of Oceanography at the Russian Academy of Sciences announced on June 18 that new fieldwork has shown the retreat of the Aral Sea has stabilized and for the first time in almost 50 years the water body has stopped drying out.
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Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon detailed what he said were the five main water management problems facing Central Asia during this week’s Second Asia-Pacific Water Summit in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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Central Asian officials, NGOs and multilateral financing institutions will discuss Tajikistan’s massive and controversial Roghun hydropower project at the Second Meeting of Stakeholders and Civil Society on November 7.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered support to Kyrgyzstan in its conflict with downstream Uzbekistan over distribution of water resources in Central Asia. Almost $500 million USD in debt will be excused in exchange for a package of deals that will extend Moscow's water, energy and military influence in the region.
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13 Mar 2012- 00:17 by OOSKAnews Correspondent Australia, WEST PERTH Increased development and water consumption in upstream Afghanistan is negatively affecting the water supply to Iran, exacerbating latent tensions between the two countries, according to a new report. Iran sees construction of
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22 Jun 2011- 09:15 by OOSKAnews Correspondent DUSHANBE, Tajikistan- Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon addressed the European Parliament in Strasbourg earlier this month, asking for help resolving conflicts related to Central Asia’s scarce water resources. “Water and energy issues … are constantly
