Alternative Water Allocation in Kyrgyzstan: Lessons from the Lower Colorado River Basin and New South Wales

Water

Akmal Karimov¹  Murat Yakubov¹  Andrew Noble³  Kahramon Jumabaev¹  Oyture Anarbekov¹  Jusipbek Kazbekov¹  Nazir Mirzaev² 

[1] Central Asia Regional Office, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Osie str., Tashkent, 100000, Uzbekistan; E-Mails:;The Scientific Information Center of the Interstate Coordination Water Commission. Karasu-4/11, Tashkent, 100187, Uzbekistan; E-Mails:;International Water Management Institute (IWMI), National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute, Ban Nongviengkham, Xaythany District, Vientiane, Laos; E-Mail:

关键词: water allocation;    modeling;    water tariff;    double cropping;    Central Asia;   

DOI  :  10.3390/w2030510

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Focus group discussions and a modeling approach were applied to determine policy and regulatory refinements for current water allocation practices in Kyrgyzstan. Lessons from the Lower Colorado River basin, Texas and New South Wales, Australia were taken into consideration. The paper analyzes the impact of adopting some of these interventions within the socio-environmental context that currently prevails in Kyrgyzstan. The optimization model for water distribution at the river-basin scale was developed using GAMS 2.25 software. Application of the model to the AkburaRiver basin indicated efficiencies in the proposed institutional rules especially in low water years.

【 授权许可】

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