There are 379 projects that match your search.
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Kazakhstan
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Land Degradation
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2006
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3,632.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: KAZ/06/07 |
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Auliekol settlement is located near to the pine wood. 11347 people lives there. The local hospital is situated on sandy grounds. There is a strong necessity to restore the territory round the hospital as it?s amazed by construction materials, ( ... )
ectant agents and mineral oil (due to draining liquid fuel into the boiler-house and repair of machines).
The project is directed on restoration of the territory round the hospital complex by means of creation of a phyto-barrier with pine saplings and implementation of the local community awareness raising measures.
Expected results are (i) restoration of the degraded territories round
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Kazakhstan
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Multifocal Area
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2006
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32,890.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: KAZ/06/20 |
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Environmental NGOs of RK are involved in many environmental initiatives and projects connected to biodiversity conservation and land degradation, forests recovery, protection of people ecological rights and lobbying of public participation in ( ... )
on making process on ecological thematic both at the local, and national level.
Long-term experience of EcoForum?s sections ?Ecological education?, RIOD network and "BOBR", Antinuclear campaign has shown a persceptive and efficiency of network and partner projects realization with a view of successful lobbying and protection of people ecological rights, expansion of a field for public
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Kazakhstan
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Land Degradation
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2006
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5,213.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: kaz/06/11 |
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Bostandyk settlement is located in Talas area. Over 1500 people live there, 104 farming companies work there. The settlement is located in semi-desert zone. The main problem for inhabitants of the village is lack of water for irrigation. The sowing ( ... )
s round the village are degraded, the sown area doesn?t yield harvest because of its strong salinity. Besides, uncontrolled cattle grazing aggravates the situation.
The project is aimed at raising pastures productivity through water supply of these sites. Sowing of alfalfa and barley will promote enrichment of the soils. As people will get forage for the cattle, cattle grazing will reduce on
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Kazakhstan
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Land Degradation
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2006
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5,457.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: KAZ/06/10 |
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Shakirov settlement is located in semi-desert zone. The main problem for inhabitants of the village is lack of water for irrigation. The sowing grounds round the village are degraded, the sown area doesn?t yield harvest because of its strong ( ... )
ty. Besides, uncontrolled cattle grazing aggravates the situation. Due to mass unemployment of the population felling of the forest belts takes place.
The purpose of the project is to ensure local community participation in preservation of pastures, reduction of land degradation processes and soils salinity by means of sowing forage crops and creation of forest shelter belts. Within the
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Kazakhstan
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Biodiversity
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2006
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500.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: KAZ/06/24 |
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Forests including saxaul and bushes cover 4.6% of the Kazakhstan territory, without saxaul and bushes ? only 1,2 %. At the same time forests are uneven distributed on the republic territory. Karaganda oblast can be considered as woodless. Lack of ( ... )
ial resources leads to reduction of the forests recovery after conflagration and natural degradation. That has negatively affects the forest biodiversity and leads to growth of cutting areas and fire-sites.
During 1972-1986, 20000 ha of Kotyr-Kyzyltau mountain-forest massif territory of Shetskyi region, Karaganda oblast, counted as reserve territory. It inhabits with some Red Book species,
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Kazakhstan
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Biodiversity
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2006
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500.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: KAZ/06/17 |
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Problem of unemployment is critical for rural areas. Despite of perfect conditions for development of tourist business in settlements located near to National parks and Reserves, population faces difficulties with its development and creation of ( ... )
onal workplaces.
The basic problems of ecological tourism development in rural areas are:
- Lack of information that local communities have about small business development process
- Low social activity and misunderstanding of NGOs role in regional development;
- Absence of tour operators in big cities of the country (Astana, Almaty, Kokchetau, Karaganda, etc.)
- Problems of tolerance
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Kazakhstan
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International Waters
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2006
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500.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: KAZ/06/08 |
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Chu-Talas water basin is one of the most densely populated regions in Central Asia. Water resources of Chu and Talas rivers, being transboundary between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, provide over 2,5 million people with water.
High population ( ... )
tion in the region, specific of economic conditions in keeping agriculture, geographical location, heavy use of water resources have became the reason of appreciable deterioration of ecological situation and quality of water in Chu and Talas rivers. Besides there is a number of ecological, economic and social problems in the area which are connected with the issue of sharing and protection of
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Kazakhstan
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2006
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800.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: KAZ/06/15 |
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Now Western Kazakhstan is the area with active investigation and extraction of hydrocarbonic raw materials. Such kind of economic activities fatally reflected on ecological situation of the region. Due to strong concentration of hotbed gases over ( ... )
gion the temperature has raised up to +45 degrees C. Thus, reduction of traditional fuel sources and increase of efficient use of alternative energy sources has become actual.
The purpose of the project is promotion of alternative energy use. In particular, creation and introduction of mini-shops fort processing mushrooms with use of solar energy is planned. The activity will demonstrate
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Kazakhstan
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Multifocal Area
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2006
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18,000.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: KAZ/06/22 |
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To attract public attention to environmental problems and to raise ecojournalists activity, annual Festival of Ecological Journalism (FEJ) is carried out in CA countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrghyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tadjikistan and Turkmenistan) since 2001. ( ... )
the Festival framework a competition for the best environmentally-oriented works among region television, printed and broadcasting mass media is carried out. The festival helps to integrate ecological journalism into information space of the Central Asia and enables experience exchange among journalists of Central Asia Republics.
The following new approaches are brought in carrying out of the
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Kazakhstan
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Land Degradation
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2006
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5,597.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: KAZ/06/09 |
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Sergeevka settlement is located in a steppe zone near to Ishym river. Some parts of the lands round the village are presented by brackish soils. Due to the meadows have been ploughed up in 80th, the ecosystem of the soils has got broken, the grasses ( ... )
for the soils have disappeared. Here and there salt has appeared on the surface of the ground, the vegetative cover is presented mainly by a wormwood. When the winds blow erosion of the soil fertile layer occurs.
The purpose of the project is to restore the degraded soils and improve socio-ecological situation in Sergeevka settlement through development of beekeeping as the way to raise
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Kazakhstan
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Land Degradation
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2006
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5,520.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: KAZ/06/12 |
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The population of Sarykol settlement is 8 thousand people. Near to the project territory pastures are located, and cattle is surpassed through the territory. As a result, the vegetation is trodden from year to year; the specific composition of the ( ... )
tion is broken. The fauna degrades. Besides, a motorway of republican value passes by the project territory. Intensity of passing is high. Besides, the western part of Sarykol village is a little bit higher than the eastern one, therefore in spring-time the thawed snow flow down to the lake and bog up the territory. After the water dries up, solonetzic layer appears, and it leads to the soils
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Kazakhstan
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2006
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31,851.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: kaz/06/14 |
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Use of renewable energy sources is economically expedient in many regions of Kazakhstan. Nevertheless, the potential of renewable energy is not enough use in the country. One of the principal reasons is lack of trustworthy information about how ( ... )
ble energy can be used, what opportunities and perspective for its further development are.
As a result
?equipment producers, potential consumers of renewable energy, investors, banks and other business representatives don?t see the way to get profit out of alternative energy sources use and production
?the state bodies do not consider introduction of renewed energy sources as the real
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Kazakhstan
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Land Degradation
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2006
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5,600.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: KAZ/06/04 |
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Tanat village is located in the eastern part of the country. Population is 800 people; 17 farming facilities are located here. They own 6500 hectares of pastures. The problem is that the pastures are intensively exhausted from year to year, as the ( ... )
is constantly grazed on the same pastures. The main criteria for choosing pastures is water availability.
Now there?s a strong need for rehabilitation of the pastures being used for so long time. There are pastures round the village, where there is a dense herbage, but there are no watering places for the cattle. In this connection it is necessary to drill a well to create artificial source
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Kazakhstan
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2006
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4,692.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: KAZ/06/28 |
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Tjulkubass area is rich with apple gardens. There are 100 ha of apple gardens in Zhabagly village, and adjoining Michurin, Kemerbastau, Kumisbastau and Shakpak-baba villages. But none of the village has manufacture for vegetable and fruit ( ... )
sing. The same situation is with medical herbs. The level of solar radiation in the region is quite high, that enables uses of solar energy. Solar energy as a source accessible without any costs, can serve for drying fruit-and-vegetable, spices, and medical herbs.
The project goal is to demonstrate solar energy usage opportunities for drying fruits and vegetables through construction of a
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Kazakhstan
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Land Degradation
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2006
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5,500.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: kaz/06/06 |
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The village Sarzhal is located in the East Kazakhstan area. 2150 people live there, 73 farming facilities are placed there. Tradition common for the area is cattle breeding, in particular, horse breeding. Last years one of the serious problems is ( ... )
es degradation due to non-observance of traditional rules of the pasturing: it is quite spontaneously.
The consequence of the problem is change of quantity and quality of herbage on pastures, which leads to frequent diseases among the cattle and decrease in relative density. The farmers are not familiar with the key rules of the catle breeding, technologies of seasonal pasture use in view of
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Kazakhstan
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Biodiversity
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2006
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35,970.00
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: KAZ/05/27 |
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Saty settlement was chosen for the project implementation due to several reasons. First of all, it is located in the buffer zone to the Ile-Alatau National park, 270 km from Almaty on the way where the important tourist routes Almaty ? Kolsay lakes ( ... )
?Issyk-kul are situated. Nevertheless, local residents are not involved into tourist sphere. Thousand of tourists annually pass through Saty, but neither the local state budget nor local community members get any incomes.
Secondly, though the population of Saty is 1500 people, only 70 people are employed. The main source of incomes is farming, gardening and vegetable growing. Social and
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Kazakhstan
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Land Degradation
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2006
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5,500.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: kaz/06/05 |
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One of the basic problems of Buras village is land degradation , which is caused by frequent fires in the pine forests, illegal deforestation, disappearance of natural green barrier strengthening the ground and detaining sand, lack of understanding ( ... )
ocal people about the influence of deforestation on their livelihood, irrational cattle grazing round the village.
The project is directed on protection of Buras village out of sandy storms and drifts by means of creation of phyto-meliorative barrier, creation of a system to maintain the spring in a good condition, realization of information campaign among rural population, development of the
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Kazakhstan
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International Waters
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2006
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30,000.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: KAZ/06/18 |
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The Ural-Caspian Basin within the Republic of Kazakhstan covers the territory of 415 thousand sq. km and is considered as extremely water-deficient. Besides, public and water-users are not included in a process of discussion and decision-making of ( ... )
ms connected with water resources. UCBC (Ural-Caspian Basin Council) could become a dialogue platform, where Agreements, Reports, Memorandums and other documents determining region and national water policy will be discussed at the international level with attraction of all interested parties, including water-users and the public.
The basic problems for basin water economic administration
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Kazakhstan
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Climate Change Mitigation
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2006
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23,000.00
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OP3 - Y2 (Mar 06 - Feb 07)
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Project Number: KAZ/06/30 |
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The basic barrier for agriculture, creation of mighty forest shelter belts, development of alternative activity for mountain region is absence of water supply. Absence of electric powers and petrol pumps unpredictability limits development of ( ... )
in district villages. A serious problem is not only air pollution because of petrol engines use, but also a noise which in conditions of high mountain acoustics scaring away animals and breaking the ecosystem balance.
Hydraulic ram (hydroram) allows successfully replace nonrenewable energy sources for renewable for use in water raising. Hydroram installation and successful functioning is
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Kazakhstan
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International Waters
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2006
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11,750.00
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OP3 - Y1 (Mar 05 - Feb 06)
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Project Number: kaz/05/25 |
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The most part of the water basins in Kazakhstan are transboundary ones, and there are great problems with their pollution, including by the boardering states. Now all the issues are considered at the governmental level, however now in Kazakhstan ( ... )
is a tendency to hand over many questions connected with water resources management to the local level, to the water basin councils, in particular.
Establishment of the water basin councils is considered as one of the key directions for realization of modern integrated approach to water resources management. Owing to the UNDP IWRM Project Balkhash-Alakol water basin council has been set up, and
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