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1 Wegerich, K. 2009. The new great game: water allocation in post-Soviet Central Asia. Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 10(2):117-123.
River basin management ; Water allocation ; History ; Water use ; International relations / Central Asia / Tajikistan / Kyrgyzstan / Uzbekistan / Turkmenistan / Afghanistan / Vakhsh River / Amu Darya River Basin / Rogun Dam
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H043143)
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2 Bekchanov, Maksud; Ringler, C.; Bhaduri, A.; Jeuland, M. 2015. How would the Rogun Dam affect water and energy scarcity in Central Asia? Water International, 40(5-6):856-876. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2015.1051788]
Water scarcity ; Energy demand ; Energy generation ; Hydrology ; Economic aspects ; Models ; River basin management ; Upstream ; Water allocation ; Water power ; Irrigation water ; Water availability ; Reservoirs / Central Asia / Aral Sea Basin / Amu Darya Basin / Rogun Dam
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047222)
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02508060.2015.1051788
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047222.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047222.pdf
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The construction of the Rogun Dam in the Amu Darya Basin to increase upstream energy generation creates potential trade-offs with existing downstream irrigation, due to the different timing of energy and irrigation water demands. The present analysis, based on a hydro-economic optimization model, shows that cooperative basin-wide maximization of benefits would lead to large increases in upstream hydropower production and only minor changes in downstream irrigation benefits. However, if upstream stations, including Rogun, are managed unilaterally to maximize energy production, hydropower benefits might more than double while irrigation benefits greatly decrease, thereby substantially reducing overall basin benefits.
3 Jalilov, S.-M.; Keskinen, M.; Varis, O.; Amer, S.; Ward, F. A. 2016. Managing the water-energy-food nexus: gains and losses from new water development in Amu Darya River Basin. Journal of Hydrology, 539:648-661. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.05.071]
Water resources development ; Energy generation ; Water power ; Food security ; Water use ; Hydrology ; Economic value ; Models ; Reservoir operation ; Dams ; River basins ; Crop production ; Farmland / Central Asia / Tajikistan / Afghanistan / Uzbekistan / Turkmenistan / Amu Darya River Basin / Rogun Dam / Vakhsh River / Nurek Reservoir
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047604)
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According to the UN, the population of Central Asia will increase from its current approximately 65 million people to a well over 90 million by the end of this century. Taking this increasing population into consideration, it is impossible to project development strategies without considering three key factors in meeting the demands of a growing population: water, food and energy. Societies will have to choose, for instance, between using land and fertilizer for food production or for bio-based or renewable energy production, and between using fresh water for energy production or for irrigating crops. Thus water, food and energy are inextricably linked and must be considered together as a system. Recently, tensions among the Central Asian countries over the use of water for energy and energy production have increased with the building of Rogun Dam on the Vakhsh River, a tributary of the Amu Darya River. The dam will provide upstream Tajikistan with hydropower, while downstream countries fear it could negatively impact their irrigated agriculture. Despite recent peer reviewed literature on water resources management in Amu Darya Basin, none to date have addressed the interconnection and mutual impacts within water–energy–food systems in face of constructing the Rogun Dam. We examine two potential operation modes of the dam: Energy Mode (ensuring Tajikistan’s hydropower needs) and Irrigation Mode (ensuring water for agriculture downstream). Results show that the Energy Mode could ensure more than double Tajikistan’s energy capacity, but would reduce water availability during the growing season, resulting in an average 37% decline in agricultural benefits in downstream countries. The Irrigation Mode could bring a surplus in agricultural benefits to Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in addition an increasing energy benefits in Tajikistan by two fold. However, energy production in the Irrigation Mode would be non-optimally distributed over the seasons resulting in the most of hydropower being produced during the growing season. Neither operation mode provides optimal benefits for all the countries, emphasizing how difficult it is to actually reach a win–win scenario across the water–energy–food security nexus in transboundary river basins.
4 Menga, F. 2016. Domestic and international dimensions of transboundary water politics. Water Alternatives, 9(3):704-723.
International waters ; Water resources ; Hydraulic structures ; Dams ; Political aspects ; International relations ; Government policy ; Nationalism ; Social aspects ; International cooperation ; Development projects / Ethiopia / Tajikistan / Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam / Rogun Dam
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047800)
http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol9/v9issue3/322-a9-3-17/file
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047800.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047800.pdf
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A considerable amount of research in the field of International Relations (IR) has acknowledged the interplay between domestic politics and foreign policy. Few studies, however, have investigated this phenomenon in the narrower field of transboundary water politics. There is also a general lack of research exploring how the formation of a national identity can overlap with the construction of a large hydraulic infrastructure, and how this can have repercussions at the international level. This paper draws on Robert Putnam’s (1988) two-level game theory to illustrate how the interrelation between the domestic and the international dimensions matters in transboundary water politics. Perspectives from IR, political geography, and water politics serve to present a conceptual framework which is then linked to studies on nationalism. This helps to highlight the analytical relevance of such a perspective to understand the issue of large dams. The paper takes the cases of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia and the Rogun Dam in Tajikistan as examples.
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