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1 Whitford, P. W.; Kindler, J.; Hancock, L. M. 1996. The Aral Sea Basin Program: Cooperation in regional land and water management. In Madramootoo, C. A.; Dodds, G. T. (Eds.), Managing environmental changes due to irrigation and drainage: Proceedings of a special workshop: Sustainability of Irrigated Agriculture, 16th ICID Congress, Cairo, Egypt, September 17, 1996. New Delhi, India: ICID. pp.80-91.
Waterlogging ; Salinity ; Water quality ; Irrigation water ; Environmental effects ; Water pollution ; Water management ; Development projects ; Precipitation / Central Asia / Aral Sea Basin / Syr Darya River / Amu Darya River
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: ICID 631.7.5 G000 MAD Record No: H019493)
2 Kes, A. S. 1995. Chronicle of the Aral Sea and the Sub-Aral Region. GeoJournal, 35.1:7-10.
Water resources ; Rivers ; Hydrology ; History / Central Asia / Aral Sea / Amu Darya River / Syr Darya River
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 4989 Record No: H023747)
3 Sokolov, V. I. 1999. Integrated water resources management in the Republic of Uzbekistan. Water International, 24(2):104-115.
Water resource management ; Water conservation ; Economic policy ; Water use ; Irrigated farming ; Environmental effects ; Water allocation ; International cooperation / Uzbekistan / Aral Sea / Amu Darya River / Syr Darya River
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H025282)
4 Tanton, T. W.; Heaven, S. 1999. Worsening of the Aral Basin crisis: Can there be a solution? Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 125(6):363-368.
Water resource management ; Planning ; River basins ; Conflict ; Reservoirs ; Canals ; Salinity ; Waterlogging ; Rehabilitation / Central Asia / Russian Federation / Aral Sea Basin / Amu Darya River / Syr Darya River
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H025314)
5 Razakov, R. Research in environment and irrigation at center ecology of water management (EWM) in Uzbekistan. In SIWI, Proceedings – Water Security: Opportunity for Development and Cooperation in the Aral Sea Area. A SIWI / RSAS / UNIFEM Seminar, Stockholm, August 12, 2000. Stockholm, Sweden: SIWI. pp.57-64.
Water resource management ; Environmental effects ; Irrigated farming ; Drainage / Central Asia / Uzbekistan / Aral Sea / Syr Darya River / Amu Darya River
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 SIW Record No: H034745)
6 Television Trust for the Environment. 2004. Water wars. New Delhi, India: Centre for Science and Environment. 1 VCD (Disc 2 of 3)
Water resources ; Environmental degradation ; Cotton ; Fish ; Desertification ; Water pollution ; Water quality ; Diseases ; Public health ; Salinity ; History ; Rivers ; Reservoirs ; Effluents ; Industrialization / Russian Federation / Uzbekistan / Kyrgyzstan / Aral Sea / Amu Darya River / Moscow / Tashkent / Volga River
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: VCD Col Record No: H035828)
7 Ryan, J.; Vlek, P.; Paroda, R. (Eds.) 2004. Agriculture in Central Asia: Research for development. Aleppo, Syria: ICARDA. xvii, 361p.
Crops ; Diversification ; Crop production ; Climate ; Mapping ; Water management ; Constraints ; Water use efficiency ; Groundwater ; Salinity ; Drainage ; Water reuse ; Ecosystems ; Tillage ; Maize ; Livestock ; Agricultural research ; International cooperation / Central Asia / Uzbekistan / Tajikistan / Amu-Darya River
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 630 G570 RYA Record No: H036006)
Proceedings of a Symposium held at the American Society of Agronomy Annual Meetings at Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, 10-14 November 2002
8 Abdullayev, I.; Manthrithilake, Herath; Kazbekov, Jusipbek. 2010. Water and geopolitics in Central Asia. In Arsel, M.; Spoor, M. (Eds.). Water, environmental security and sustainable rural development: conflict and cooperation in Central Eurasia. London, UK: Routledge. pp.125-143. (Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods)
River basins ; International waters ; Water allocation ; Water user associations ; Irrigation management / Central Asia / Amu Darya River / Syr Darya River / Aral Sea / Toktogul Reservoir
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G805 ARS Record No: H042594)
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9 Lannerstad, M. 2002. Consumptive water use feeds the world and makes rivers run dry. MSc thesis. Stockholm, Sweden: Royal Institute of Technology. 73p. (TRITA-LWR Master Thesis 02-13)
Rivers ; River basin management ; Water depletion ; Water use ; Water accounting ; Food production ; Irrigated farming ; Rainfed farming ; Population growth ; Freshwater ; Plant water relations / South Asia / Colorado River / Ebro River / Nile River / Amu Darya River / Syr Darya River / Aral Sea / Indus River / Ganges River / Yellow River / Huang He River / Murray Darling River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 551.483 G000 LAN Record No: H043897)
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10 Bekchanov, Maksud; Lamers, J. P. A.; Nurmetov, K. 2014. Economic incentives for adopting irrigation innovations in arid environments. In Lamers, J. P. A.; Khamzina, A.; Rudenko, I.; Vlek, P. L. G. (Eds.). Restructuring land allocation, water use and agricultural value chains: technologies, policies and practices for the lower Amudarya region. Bonn, Germany: Bonn University Press. pp.299-317.
Irrigation development ; Investment ; Arid zones ; Water management ; Water use efficiency ; Models ; Water availability ; Water supply ; Pricing ; Economic aspects ; Farmers ; Drip irrigation ; Crops ; Land levelling / Central Asia / Uzbekistan / Aral Sea Basin / Khorezm Region / Amu Darya River
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046732)
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Water is getting scarce in many parts of the world, consequently challenging researchers, policy makers and practitioners to design options for a more efficient use of these resources, especially in irrigated agriculture. Although technical-economic efficiency of potential water-wise options and institutional restrictions for their implementation in the developing and less-developed countries are well documented, little evidence exists about the incentives for farmers and regional development agencies to adopt the efficient irrigation innovations. A linear programming model for optimizing regional agricultural income was developed to analyze the impact of water availability, water pricing, and investment accessibility on water-wise innovation adoption and conveyance efficiency improvement. The model was applied to the case of Khorezm, a region in northwestern Uzbekistan that is part of the downstream Amu Darya River in the Aral Sea Basin. Model results indicate that improving conveyance efficiency is economically less attractive than improving field-level water use efficiency due to enormous investment costs for lining the canals. Water-wise options such as manuring cotton and potatoes, implementing hydrogel in wheat and cotton, and drip irrigation of melons and vegetables are among the most promising field-level improvement options to gain optimal regional incomes under decreased water availability and increased water prices. It is illustrated that despite the huge investments needed for a wide-scale implementation of modern irrigation technologies such as drip irrigation and laser-guided land leveling, their adoption will substantially improve water use efficiency, while their implementation costs can be compensated for by the additional revenues due to increased yields and reduced costs.
11 Zeitoun, M.; Cascao, A. E.; Warner, J.; Mirumachi, N.; Matthews, Nathanial. 2017. Transboundary water interaction III: contest and compliance. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 17(2):271-294. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10784-016-9325-x]
International waters ; International cooperation ; International agreements ; Aquifers ; Rivers ; Political aspects ; Conflict / West Asia / Southeast Asia / Central Asia / Turkey / Iraq / Syria / India / Africa / Jordan River / Tigris River / Euphrates River / Ganges River / Mekong River / Amu Darya River / Nile River
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047787)
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This paper serves international water con ict resolution efforts by examining the ways that states contest hegemonic transboundary water arrangements. The conceptual framework of dynamic transboundary water interaction that it presents integrates theories about change and counter-hegemony to ascertain coercive, leverage, and liberating mechanisms through which contest and transformation of an arrangement occur. While the mechanisms can be active through sociopolitical processes either of compliance or of contest of the arrangement, most transboundary water interaction is found to contain elements of both. The role of power asymmetry is interpreted through classi cation of intervention strategies that seek to either in uence or challenge the arrangements. Coexisting contest and compliance serve to explain in part the stasis on the Jordan and Ganges rivers (where the non-hegemons have in effect consented to the arrangement), as well as the changes on the Tigris and Mekong rivers, and even more rapid changes on the Amu Darya and Nile rivers (where the non-hegemons have confronted power asymmetry through in uence and challenge). The framework also stresses how transboundary water events that may appear isolated are more accurately read within the many sociopolitical processes and arrangements they are shaped by. By clarifying the typically murky dynamics of interstate relations over transboundary waters, furthermore, the framework exposes a new suite of entry points for hydro-diplomatic initiatives.
12 Djanibekov, U.; Van Assche, K.; Boezeman, D.; Villamor, G. B.; Djanibekov, N. 2018. A coevolutionary perspective on the adoption of sustainable land use practices: the case of afforestation on degraded croplands in Uzbekistan. Journal of Rural Studies, 59:1-9. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.01.007]
Sustainable land use ; Innovation adoption ; Afforestation ; Land degradation ; Farmland ; Lowland ; Agricultural development ; Farmers ; Social aspects ; Ecological factors ; Coevolution ; Case studies ; Institutions / Uzbekistan / Amu Darya River
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048701)
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Cotton export substantially contributes to Uzbekistan's economy. To produce cotton, the state imposes output targets on farmers which results in intensified cotton production practices, and consequently in land degradation. Improving degraded croplands via afforestation is an option explored through research experiments in the region, yet is currently not practiced by farmers. Using the example of the Amu Darya River lowlands of Uzbekistan, we analyze afforestation and its implementation constraints, by developing a coevolutionary socio-ecological systems framework that leans on evolutionary economics and evolutionary governance theories. Our study shows that farmers' perceptions and rationalities, in close association with governance configurations of actors, institutions and knowledges, make them unreceptive towards afforestation. Altering relations between agricultural institutions and actors that are currently present in the cotton-centric configuration is difficult given the path-, inter- and goal dependencies. To change rural sustainable development paths, we conclude that the adoption of innovations requires a tailoring of knowledge and technology fitting local situation, as well as the reassembling of relations between actors, institutions and knowledge.
13 Djumaboev, Kakhramon; Anarbekov, Oyture; Holmatov, B.; Hamidov, A.; Gafurov, Zafar; Murzaeva, Makhliyo; Susnik, J.; Maskey, S.; Mehmood, H.; Smakhtin, V. 2020. Surface water resources. In Xenarios, S.; Schmidt-Vogt, D.; Qadir, M.; Janusz-Pawletta, B.; Abdullaev, I. (Eds.). The Aral Sea Basin: water for sustainable development in Central Asia. Oxon, UK: Routledge - Earthscan. pp.25-38. (Earthscan Series on Major River Basins of the World)
Water resources development ; Surface water ; Hydrometeorology ; Observation ; Climate change ; Anthropogenic factors ; Water use ; Irrigated farming ; Infrastructure ; Temperature ; Precipitation ; Rivers ; Flow discharge ; Riparian zones / Central Asia / Uzbekistan / Tajikistan / Kyrgyzstan / Kazakhstan / Turkmenistan / Aral Sea Basin / Amu Darya River / Syr Darya River
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049380)
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14 Hamidov, A.; Khamidov, M.; Ishchanov, J. 2020. Impact of climate change on groundwater management in the northwestern part of Uzbekistan. Agronomy, 10(8):1173. (Special issue: The Adaptation of Agriculture to Climatic Change) [doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10081173]
Groundwater management ; Climate change ; Water table ; Mineralization ; Salinity ; Air temperature ; Sustainability ; Forecasting ; Irrigated farming ; Irrigated land ; Case studies ; Models / Central Asia / Uzbekistan / Khorezm / Amu Darya River
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049959)
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Global climate change can have a significant impact on the development and sustainability of agricultural production. Climate scenarios indicate that an expected increase in air temperature in semiarid Uzbekistan can lead to an increase in evapotranspiration from agricultural fields, an increase in irrigation water requirements, and a deterioration in the ameliorative status of irrigated lands. The long-term mismanagement of irrigation practices and poor conditions of drainage infrastructure have led to an increase in the water table and its salinization level in the northwestern part of Uzbekistan. This article presents the results of an analysis of the amelioration of irrigated lands in the Khorezm region of Uzbekistan as well as the modeling of the dynamics of water table depths and salinity levels using the Mann–Kendall trend test and linear regression model. The study estimated the water table depths and salinity dynamics under the impact of climate change during 2020–2050 and 2050–2100. The results show that the water table depths in the region would generally decrease (from 1.72 m in 2050 to 1.77 m by 2100 based on the Mann–Kendall trend test; from 1.75 m in 2050 to 1.79 m by 2100 according to the linear regression model), but its salinity level would increase (from 1.72 g·L-1 in 2050 to 1.85 g·L-1 by 2100 based on the Mann–Kendall trend test; from 1.97 g·L-1 in 2050 to 2.1 g·L-1 by 2100 according to the linear regression model). The results of the study provide insights into the groundwater response to climate change and assist authorities in better planning management strategies for the region.
15 Alawi, S. A.; Ozkul, S. 2023. Evaluation of land use/land cover datasets in hydrological modelling using the SWAT model. H2Open Journal, 6(1):63-74. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/h2oj.2023.062]
Land use ; Land cover ; Hydrological modelling ; Precipitation ; Evapotranspiration ; Remote sensing ; Satellite imagery ; Landsat ; Stream flow ; Water balance / Afghanistan / Kokcha Watershed / Amu Darya River
Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051866)
https://iwaponline.com/h2open/article-pdf/6/1/63/1187190/h2oj0060063.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051866.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051866.pdf
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Land use/land cover (LULC) is a key influencer for runoff generation and the estimation of evapotranspiration in the hydrology of watersheds. Therefore, it is essential to use accurate and reliable LULC data in hydrological modelling. Ground-based data deficiencies are a big challenge in most parts of developing countries and remote areas around the globe. The main objective of this research was to evaluate the accuracy of LULC data from two different sources in hydrological modelling using the soil and water assessment tool (SWAT). The first LULC data was prepared by the classification of Landsat 8 satellite imagery, and the second LULC data was extracted from the ESRI 2020 global LULC dataset. The study was conducted on the Kokcha Watershed, a mountainous basin partly covered by permanent snow and glaciers. The accuracy assessment was done based on a comparison between observed river discharge and simulated river flow, utilizing each LULC dataset separately. After calibration and validation of the models, the acquired result was approximately similar and slightly (5.5%) different. However, due to the higher resolution and easily accessible ESRI 2020 dataset, it is recommended to use ESRI 2020 in hydrological modelling using the SWAT model.
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