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About the author | vi | |||||
Acknowledgments | vi | |||||
Abbreviations and acronyms | vii | |||||
Transliteration system | vii | |||||
Summary | viii | |||||
1 | Introduction | 1 | ||||
2 | Basin water resources | 6 | ||||
2.1 | Amu Dar'ya and Syr Dar'ya | 6 | ||||
2.2 | The sufficiency of renewable water resources | 10 | ||||
3 | The Aral Sea and its desiccation | 13 | ||||
3.1 | Physical, hydrologic and biological character | 13 | ||||
3.2 | Ecological, economic and health consequences of desiccation | 14 | ||||
3.3 | Restoration requirements | 20 | ||||
4 | Irrigated agriculture: the key to water management improvement | 24 | ||||
4.1 | The pre-Soviet period | 24 | ||||
4.2 | The Soviet period | 29 | ||||
4.3 | Contemporary irrigation | 36 | ||||
5 | Sharing the waters of the Aral Sea basin | 43 | ||||
5.1 | Institutional structures | 43 | ||||
5.2 | International donor efforts to promote cooperation | 48 | ||||
5.3 | Improvements needed | 51 | ||||
6 | National land and water policies and politics | 54 | ||||
6.1 | The Soviet legacy | 54 | ||||
6.2 | Institutional and economic reforms | 55 | ||||
6.3 | Corruption and patronage in water management | 64 | ||||
7 | The future of water management | 68 | ||||
Further reading | 72 |
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