BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 4
By Jeila Aliyeva - Trend:
Turkmenistan has started studies of the Aral Sea region, Trend reports with reference to Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper.
The aim of the work is to evaluate the intensity of the environmental situation in terms of changes in sanitary, roentgenologic, and bacteriological indicators of water, soil, and air in the regions belonging to the Aral Sea region.
According to the results of preliminary research data, roentgenologic and bacteriological indicators of water and soil either do not exceed the limits of maximum permissible concentrations, or they are close to the limit line.
Turkmenistan is affected by the problem of Aral Sea's ecology. It is most noticeable in the country’s northern Dashoguz Region, where problems have arisen with the provision of drinking water, the fight against salinization of cultivation lands, land degradation and desertification.
With the founding from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS) was established in the 1990s with the aim to finance joint projects and programs to save the Aral Sea and improve the environmental situation in the Aral Sea region.
President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov pays attention to environmental safety and protection, especially to the Aral Sea crisis.
Turkmenistan has participated in a meeting on improving the water and socio-economic situation in the Aral Sea basin on April 10, 2020.
Turkmenistan borders with Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Iran and Afghanistan and uses water resources coming in accordance with the agreed quotas from four transboundary Amu Darya, Tejen, Atrek and Murghab rivers.
In Central Asia, the main sources of water resources used for agriculture and industry, electricity production and supplying the population with drinking water are rivers, and almost all of them are transboundary.