Transboundary water resources : a foundation for regional stability in Central Asia : proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Worksop on Facilitating Regional Security in Central Asia through Improved Management of Transboundary Water Basin Resources, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 20-22 June 2006 / editors, J.E. Moerlins [and others]
Front Matter; Problems of Water Resource Management in Central Asia; Communicating the Issues of the Aral Sea Basin Long-Term Vision or the Aral Sea Basin the Aral Sea Basin Management Model (ASB-MM); Water Ecosystems of Central Asia: Important Factors Affecting the Environmental ... Social Prosperity of the Region; Nato/Ccms Pilot Study Meeting on Transboundary Water Management Issues in the United States & Central Asia: Problem Definition, Regulation and Management; Integrated Management of Transboundary Water Resources in the Aral Sea Basin
Summary
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." H.G. Wells Despite a growing awareness of the importance of freshwater, human actions continue to degrade the freshwater ecosystems upon which we depend. Most regions of the world face serious impending problems related to the availability and efficient/equitable distribution of freshwater??? these problems become exacerbated when both surface water and groundwater flows between and among multiple countries. As populations grow and the overall demand for water increases, the various and often competing
