Kazakhstan’s water program: paper rivers, phantom dams?
For 2025, the Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nurzhan Nurzhigitov announced ambitious plans to build four new reservoirs in...
Tajikistan: betting on Dams to the detriment of the sun and wind
Tajikistan, a country with colossal hydropower resources, is making a decisive bet on "big water", directing the main efforts and international investments to the development...
Five new micro-HPPs launched in Karakalpakstan
In the Republic of Karakalpakstan, five new microhydroelectric power plants were launched, built at the expense of Uzbekhydroenergo's own funds. The projects were implemented as...
Dams in national parks: development of protected lands may begin in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan's nature reserves and national parks have lost the status of inviolable territories. A number of amendments to the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan...
UNESCO: the future of the Western Tien Shan is under threat due to HPP projects
International experts are sounding the alarm: the nature of the Western Tien Shan is under serious threat – primarily due to the construction and design...
Kazakhstan approved the rules for the inspection of hydraulic structures
The Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, by order dated June 27, 2025, approved the Rules for conducting a multifactorial...
Battle for Issyk: environmentalists of Kazakhstan against the creation of a hydroelectric power station in the national park
In Kazakhstan, the ecological society "Green Salvation" opposes the construction of a new hydroelectric power station in the Ile-Alatau National Park. What happened The Almaty...
Most dams in the east of Kazakhstan require urgent repair
More than 80% of hydraulic structures on the balance sheet of the municipal enterprise "Shygys su Koymalary" in the East Kazakhstan region require urgent repair...
Construction of the Krasnogorsk hydroelectric complex: billions are demanded from the contractor
The fate of an object strategically important for the Omsk region of the Russian Federation – the Krasnogorsk hydroelectric complex – was in question due...
Chinese hydroelectric power plants for the rivers of Kyrgyzstan: the price of energy independence
At the end of June, in Tianjin, China, on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum "Summer Davos-2025", the Kyrgyz delegation...