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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hannan, T.

Titel

A Solution to the Aral Sea Crisis? Sustainable Water Use in Central Asia

Ist Teil von

• Journal (Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management), 2000-06, Vol.14 (3), p.213-218

Ort / Verlag

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2000

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The Aral Sea is perhaps the most well known of environmental disasters which has resulted from non‐sustainable development. As the sea continues to decline, a search is maintained for a means of achieving sustainability within the context of national economies which are new and fragile, and where international tensions over water are a major factor in the Central Asian political picture. Using the Karakum Main Canal of Turkmenistan as an example of the Aral Sea irrigation projects which commenced during the 1950s, the paper explores the effects of non‐sustainability and poor water management with the luxury of hindsight in order to draw lessons for the future. It presents the proposals aimed at future sustainability for the Karakum Canal and explores whether achieving sustainability is now possible and practical in the current regional and global political atmosphere.