Year: 2013
Collections: Research Paper
Topics: Water, Transboundary Water Resources, Transboundary cooperation, Hydropower
Authors: Sanat Kushkumbayev, Azina Kushkumbayeva
Countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
Source: Chinese Journal of International Law
This paper discusses the failure of past regional and sub-regional treaties to resolve these ossifying conflicts of interest, and explains that only a truly multilateral convention might allow these nations to collectively determine a way forward which satisfies all parties.
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Water is increasingly scarce in Central Asia. The nations of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan (the “lower” nations) face significant resource issues in their relations with Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan (the “upper” nations). The otherwise relatively resource-rich “lower” nations sit downriver from the “upper” nations, which suffer a dearth of non-water resources and spotty electrical flow. These “upper” nations have begun to think of transboundary rivers as sources of hydropower and to view their national control of water as a means to improve economically. This paper discusses the failure of past regional and sub-regional treaties to resolve these ossifying conflicts of interest, and explains that only a truly multilateral convention might allow these nations to collectively determine a way forward which satisfies all parties.
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