Category Turkmenistan

Monday April 21st, 2014 Posted in Fact Sheets, Turkmenistan

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The EU project ‘Water Management and Basin Organisations in Central Asia’ (WMBOCA) is being implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH (German Society for International Cooperation). WMBOCA aims to build capacity in regional water cooperation and sustainable water resources management in smaller transboundary river basins.

Moreover, WMBOCA activities focus on the introduction of the basin approach, for which the EU Water Framework Directive is the guiding concept...

Saturday March 15th, 2014 Posted in Fact Sheets, Turkmenistan

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Across large areas, the surface water and groundwater resour-
ces of Turkmenistan are extremely scarce, due to the country’s predominantly desert climate and average annual precipitation of 100-150 mm. The Amu Darya River is the main source of water in the northern part of the country, while the southern regions near the Kopet Dag Mountains are mainly served by the Karakum Canal, which was constructed in the middle of 20th century.

Other water resources are the Murgab and the Tedjen rivers, which run into Turkmenistan from Afghanistan and Iran, and are mainly supplied by runoff from the northern Hindukush Mountains...