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Turkmenistan switching to environmentally friendly technologies in industrial sector

Turkmenistan Materials 12 August 2020 13:06 (UTC +04:00)
Turkmenistan switching to environmentally friendly technologies in industrial sector

BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 12

By Jeila Aliyeva - Trend:

Turkmenistan is working on the transition to environmentally friendly and resource-saving technologies in the industrial sector, Trend reports with reference to Turkmenistan’s State News Agency.

For this purpose, the country is re-equipping enterprises of fuel and energy, textile and other sectors.

In addition, Turkmenistan is using advanced technologies and technical solutions to prevent environmental damage during reconstructing and modernizing of existing production infrastructure facilities, as well as during the construction of new ones.

Furthermore, the country is working in the field of nature protection, conservation of biological diversity and natural landscapes.

The country’s work to protect nature, biological diversity and natural landscapes is carried out within the framework of the National Climate Change Strategy and the National Forest Program of Turkmenistan and others.

President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov pays attention to environmental safety and protection, especially to the Aral Sea crisis, which most noticeable in the country’s northern Dashoguz Region, where it caused problems with the supply of drinking water as well as 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.

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.

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