TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, September 15. Uzbekistan
expressed its readiness to develop a National Water Conservation
Program as a part of the Development Strategy being applied in
Uzbekistan, Trend studies.
The assertion was made by President of Uzbekistan Shavkat
Mirziyoyev at a gathering of the Council of Heads of the Founder
States of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea in
Tajikistan’s Dushanbe on September 15. The president famous that the
International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea is, to begin with, a
distinctive expertise of the multilateral cooperation of the Central
Asian international locations in fixing probably the most acute issues on a
world scale.
“I want to word that large-scale work is at the moment being
carried out in Uzbekistan to enhance the environmental and social
state of affairs within the Aral Sea area. Based on the decision of the
United Nations General Assembly on the declaration of the Aral Sea
area as a zone of environmental improvements and applied sciences, an
Action Plan and a Program of measures for sustainable
socio-economic growth, employment, and enhancing the usual
of dwelling of the inhabitants are being applied,” the president
elaborated.
The President of Uzbekistan known as upon different Central Asian
international locations to strengthen cooperation within the subject of water
conservation by figuring out it as one of many priorities of the
fund’s actions.
In the previous couple of years, forest plantations have been carried out
on the dried-up backside of the Aral Sea on an space of 1.7 million
hectares. It is deliberate to create protecting inexperienced lanes on one other
400,000 hectares within the subsequent two years. Natural parks, nature
reserves, and state reserves have been created on an space of greater than
3.5 million hectares to mitigate the results of the Aral Sea
catastrophe in addition to protect biodiversity within the area. As of
at present, the full space of protected pure territories within the Aral
Sea area quantities to 4.6 million hectares.
In addition, Uzbekistan is implementing full-scale measures to
enhance the effectivity of water use within the nation. Over the previous 7
years, water-saving applied sciences have been applied on an space
of greater than 1 million hectares, which is a couple of quarter of all
irrigated land within the nation.
