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Of transboundary basins, integrated water resources management (IWRM) and second best solutions: the case of groundwater banking in Central Asia

This paper tells the story of trade-off between hydropower and irrigation and its implications for groundwater use in Syrdarya basin in Central Asia. With the independence of the central Asian republics, this trade-off has become a transboundary issue. Efforts to coordinate bilateral action using in...

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Main Authors: Karimov, Akmal A., Giordano, Mark, Mukherji, Aditi, Borisov, Vecheslav, Djumanov, Jamol
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: IWA Publishing 2012
Subjects:
integrated management
water management
groundwater
water power
irrigation
resource management
policies
water use
history
groundwater development
water budget
river basin management
international waters
energy generation
valleys
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/34697
Summary:This paper tells the story of trade-off between hydropower and irrigation and its implications for groundwater use in Syrdarya basin in Central Asia. With the independence of the central Asian republics, this trade-off has become a transboundary issue. Efforts to coordinate bilateral action using integrated water resources management (IWRM) principles of basin-wide cooperation have not yet yielded the hoped for results. This paper shows that there could be a ?second best? option of solving at least part of this transboundary problem by ?banking? winter flows released for hydropower production in Kyrgyzstan in the underground aquifers of Uzbekistan's Fergana Valley and extracting it for irrigation in the summer months.

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