Environmentalists against water reservoir

The problem of dependency farmers Zhambyl region of irrigation water from Kyrgyzstan (Kirov reservoir) was the proposal of Ministry of Agriculture, uttered by the chairman of the Committee for Water Resources of the Committee of Agriculture USDA Angarbekom Ormanov, built in Zhambyl new reservoir with a capacity of up to one billion cubic meters of water.

"In order to be less dependent on Kyrgyzstan, now scientists, research and design institutes studies the additional construction of the reservoir in the amount of one billion cubic meters of water," - he said.


In addition, in connection with the riots last spring in Kyrgyzstan Majilis deputy Amangeldy Momyshev parliamentary inquiry sent to the Prime Minister Karim Massimov, urging the Government to take control of Kirov reservoir.

Representatives of public and environmental organizations Zhambyl region believe that the proposal of the Ministry of agriculture threatens not only the environment of the region, but also the lives of the residents of Zhambyl region.

"According to our information, the plan to build the reservoir in the village Zhasorken Zhambyl region, - the head of the NGO" Taraz Initiative Center "Svetlana Beisova. - It's between the Kirov reservoir and Taraz, which is extremely dangerous from the point of view of a possible incursion of the Kirov dam, which we had been threatened in the spring of this year. "

According to her, in case of emergency 500 million cubic meters of the Kirov reservoir located above in relation to Taraz, just take down the path of a new dam reservoir, and Taraz multimeter will be under a layer of water. "I think that the construction of such a large impact on the ecology of the reservoir of our region. I am against the rash of projects without a public environmental review, which include changes in natural water bodies and change their beds and occupancy, "- said the representative of the civil society, adding that the construction of the new reservoir could cause an ecological disaster in the region - change of groundwater salinization soil, loss of agricultural and hunting grounds.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Kazakhstan has 560 artificial reservoirs, of which 66 are state-owned, 175 - in the municipal, 211 - in a private, 108 orphan, 113 - in poor condition.