The Tobol River is getting shallower: the region’s agriculture is under threat
Agrarians in Kostanay region of Kazakhstan faced serious difficulties in watering their fields due to a sharp drop in the water level in the Tobol...
The Kambar-Ata HPP-1 project may include the largest bank of Japan
The Ministry of Finance of Kyrgyzstan held talks with representatives of MUFG Bank, the largest commercial bank in Japan and one of the world's leading...
Kazakhstan is ready to purchase electricity from the Rogun HPP
The Ministers of Energy of Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, Yerlan Akkenzhenov and Daler Juma Shofakir, held talks in Astana. The meeting took place on the sidelines...
The EBRD is ready to finance the construction of the Kambar-Ata HPP-1
The Ministry of Energy of Kazakhstan and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) discussed the prospects for joint work in the energy sector....
A controversial financing scheme for the first HPP is being discussed in Kazakhstan
In Kazakhstan, a discussion is unfolding around the initiative to amend the law "On Electric Power Industry" aimed at stimulating the construction of pumped-storage power...
Karakul hydroelectric power station in Kyrgyzstan is planned to be launched by the end of the year
The construction of the Karakul HPP in Kyrgyzstan has reached the final stage. According to the open joint-stock company "Chakan HPP", which implements the project,...
The Channel of Discord: how the Taliban project threatens Central Asia with drought
On the international agenda, security issues are often reduced to traditional threats – military aggression, nuclear weapons or economic pressure. However, one of the most...
The construction of Dams in Central Asia is complicated by tectonic faults
In Central Asia, the number of power plants that do not saturate the atmosphere with carbon dioxide emissions is growing – solar, wind and hydroelectric...
Kambar-Ata-1: a new round of HPP negotiations was held in Brussels
On September 25-26, 2025, the third round of ministerial negotiations on the Kambar-Ata HPP-1 construction project on the Naryn River in the Kyrgyz Republic took...
The ecosystem of the Urals: how to save a transboundary river from degradation
Russian scientists have proposed to rethink the principles of the distribution of water resources in the transboundary basin of the Ural River (Zhaiyk), which flows...