Aral sea naked of more than 33 thousand square kilometers of its bottom, covered by salt hashed with the rests of chemical substances, before applied with the purposes of increase of productivity of agricultural cultures and then washed off by the rivers Amu Darya and Sur-Darya in Aral sea. The thermal contrast, arising everyone day, between steppe, deserted district and water surface of the sea derivates local winds. They mix up with high-altitude winds of planetary character, gear up and rise in air thousand tons of rests from the sea and carry them out on thousand kilometers, which then drop out on ground, cover it and make unsuitable for vegetation, typical of the given district. All this conducts to climate change, further land degradation and intensive dezertification of the territories, decrease biological variety of flora and fauna. Karateren and Tastak villages are at the centre of the Aral ecological accident. They have vast difficulties in a part of maintenance of the population with drinking water. The sickness rate of the population is very high. Here sickness rate level is almost twice higher, than in other regions over Kazakhstan. Because of high tariffs for electrical energy and high costs of coal the local population has large problems with heating of water for cooking, washing utensils and linen, bathing of the people.

The Project will allow to lower the charge of mineral and vegetative fuel, thus having suspended barbarous cutting down of saxsaul, and also it will supply the local population with a pure drinking and hot water in the warm period of year (spring - summer - autumn). The project will be realized with active participation of the local population and local authorities at all stages of the project - assembly of solar collectors on a place, their installation, adjustment.

The goal of this project is to develop solar water heating and desalination facilities. It will demonstrate the ways that solar power facilities can meet household needs in the villages of Tastak and Karateren, in the Aral region. The project will 1) provide sustainable solar electricity to Tastak village (wholly) and Karateren village (partially), in order to create potable and cooking water; 2) raise the environmental awareness of the local people and will foster eco-friendly attitudes; will promote the use of renewable power sources; and will disseminate information about the successful experiences of solar energy.

This project will be implemented by an NGO from the Aral area, with complete assistance from community members, experts from the private solar company. The patent owner will transfer the right to freely use the solar patents for three of the systems and a provide a package of technical documents to the grantee. This can be used in the future to develop the small-scale manufacture of solar water heaters and distillers for local people living in the Aral area

Expected results:
1. Creation of an evident demonstration example showing advantage of use of renewed sources of energy.
2. Guaranteed maintenance of the inhabitants in 2 villages with pure drinking and hot water during spring?summer-autumn time.
3. Increase of a level of ecological education of the population.
4. Active involving of the local population into the decision of ecological problems and problems of maintenance of a healthy image of life, improvement of quality of life of the local population and decrease of a level of sickness rate.
5. Increase of a role of local NGOs in the ecological problems solving with the further activization of their activity.