Year: 2008
Collections: Books
Topics: Water, Sustainable Development, IWRM, Water diplomacy, Transboundary Water Resources, Water Security, Transboundary cooperation, Hydropolitics
Authors: Thomas Bernauer, Tobias Siegfried
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This book chapter examines the compliance and actual performance of an international water agreement in the Naryn/Syr Darya Basin in Central Asia. The authors analyze the 1998 agreement, which was designed to regulate the operation of the Toktogul Reservoir by balancing Kyrgyzstan’s need for winter hydropower production with Uzbekistan’s and Kazakhstan’s need for summer irrigation water. The main argument of the article is that formal compliance with an agreement does not necessarily mean that the agreement is effective in solving the real water allocation problem. Using the policy performance metric (PER), the authors show that although compliance with the agreement was relatively high, its actual performance was low and highly variable. The article concludes that the existing water management system in the Naryn/Syr Darya Basin requires urgent institutional reform.
Year: 2008
Collections: Conferences
Topics: IWRM, Water governance, Transboundary Water Resources, Transboundary cooperation
Authors: Mikhail Khankhasayev, Steven Leitman
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Source: Transboundary Water Resources: A Foundation for Regional Stability in Central Asia
This paper summarizes the main results of the NATO CCMS Pilot Study Meeting on Transboundary Water Management Issues in the United States & Central Asia (8–10 March 2005, Tallahassee, Florida). The structure of the meeting was focused on comparing how major transboundary water sharing conflicts in the United States (like the ACF conflict) have been managed toward the goal of equitable conflict resolution among the competing jurisdictions with similar conflicts in the Central Asian region.
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