In a mask and a hazmat suit, Ermek Murataliyev drives a truck filled with Soviet-era radioactive waste along the winding ...

Spread on the banks of the Syr Darya River, bordering the Kyzylkum desert in the southeast and Aryskum sands in the north, ...

While water is often characterized as a potential spark for conflict in Central Asia, it is at the same time an opportunity for cooperation. Columbia University’s Benjamin Orlove on the ...

As any visitor will learn by travelling along the banks of the Syr Darya River, the Fergana Valley has been shaped by its privileged geographical setting, attracting people—it is one of the most ...

Once one of the worlds largest inland lakes, Asia's Aral Sea has evaporated into desert, dried by Soviet era irrigation plans. One village in Kazakhstan sits on the shrinking shores of the Aral Sea.

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(SOUNDBITE OF RUNNING WATER) KIPNIS: And then there's the river, the Syr Darya, one of two rivers which feeds the Aral Sea. Medieval Islamic texts refer to it as one of the four rivers of paradise.

How might these be resolved or eased, and how could water management models and international financial institutions help? Water disputes over river basins—the Colorado, the Ganges-Brahmaputra, the ...

The Aral Sea straddles Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and for thousands of years was fed by two major rivers, the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya. Having no outflow, the sea’s water level was maintained ...

1943. Deep rear. Goods necessary for the rear and front are transported along the Syr Darya River. The heroes of the film — the old man Zeynolla and the war—deprived teenagers Dariga ...

Local Kyrgyz communities are also now facing the prospect of the toxic tailing dam at Kumtor contaminating not only the local water resources but the regional trans-national river Syr Darya ...