Impacts of policy decisions to the water balance of the transboundary river basin in case study of the Zeravshan river

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  • KHUJANAZAROV Temur
    Water Resources Research Center, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan
  • TANAKA Kenji
    Water Resources Research Center, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan
  • TOUGE Yoshiya
    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering School of Engineering, Tohoku University
  • TANAKA Shigenobu
    Water Resources Research Center, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan
  • TODERICH Kristina
    International Center for Biosaline Agriculture for Central Asia and Caucasus, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Abstract

Water resources security and efficient usage is the main source of conflict over transboundary rivers. Zeravshan a transboundary river in Central Asia is a snow-glacier fed river originating in Tajikistan that use only 4% of its resources and further flows to Uzbekistan, who fully utilize river resources for irrigation. Such disparity in river usage causes Tajikistan to consider heavy investments in hydropower dams that will increase social and political tension between counterparts. The distribution of the available lands for irrigation and income is high in downstream, while upstream argues to have right over water to generate own benefits in producing energy. In this research we analyze conflict between countries based on policy they implement on water regulation and management.

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Details 詳細情報について

  • CRID
    1390001205711984896
  • NII Article ID
    130005176046
  • DOI
    10.11520/jshwr.29.0_124
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
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