Noticias sobre Tajikistan
USAID to strengthen transboundary water cooperation in Central Asia
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Study identifies need for investment in Asian hydropower modernisation
Hydropower stations constructed decades ago across Asia are in need of significant investment and upgrades to enhance their critical contribution to the region’s clean energy goals, according to new research.
Researchers assess water security of Central Asian countries
Central Asia belongs to arid and semi-arid region.
Deadline extended for $1m assessment fund for sustainable hydropower projects
New deadline for applications is 1 June 2020.
IHA welcomes Small Hydropower Plants Association of Kyrgyzstan as affiliate member
The International Hydropower Association has announced that the Small Hydropower Plants Association of Kyrgyzstan has joined as an affiliate member.
IHA launches $1m assessment fund for sustainable hydropower projects
First call for proposals announced with April 2020 application deadline.
The Aral Sea: the difficult return of water
10 years after the documentary shot by Isabel Coixet, the Aral Sea continues to be a paradigm of the errors that trigger an environmental disaster with terrible humanitarian consequences.
Climate change will hit women in hot spots hardest
New research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) suggests that male migration and poor working conditions for women combine with institutional failure or poverty to hamper women’s ability to adapt to climate variability and change in Asia and Africa.
Experts present prescription to avoid dangerous water shortfall for 70 million Central Asians
Urgent need to replace competition with co-operation in the Aral Sea Basin.
Uzbekistan signs MOU with Israel’s Watergen to fight water shortage
The government of Uzbekistan signed a memorandum of understanding on Tuesday with the Israel-based company, Watergen in an effort aimed at harnessing and using the company’s patented technology to make pure, clean-drinking water out of ambient air.
Rural Tajikistan to gain better access to water and sanitation with World Bank support
Over 400,000 people in rural Tajikistan will gain access to clean drinking water and around 100,000 people, mostly children, will benefit from better sanitation facilities and hygiene training, thanks to the World Bank-financed Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project, launched in Bokhtar.
Work begins on modernisation of Qairokkum hydropower plant in Tajikistan
US$ 196 million finance package from EBRD, EIB, Green Climate Fund and Climate Investment Funds supports project started in 2014. HPP to provide reliable supply of sustainable electricity for 500,000 people.
World Bank project to help improve water supply and wastewater services in Tajikistan
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved US$ 30 million in grant financing from the International Development Association for the Dushanbe Water Supply and Wastewater Project, which will support improved water and wastewater infrastructure, benefitting the residents of selected areas of Tajikistan’s capital city, Dushanbe.
Asia’s glaciers provide buffer against drought
A new study to assess the contribution that Asia’s high mountain glaciers make to relieving water stress in the region is published this week in the journal Nature.
EU grants €7M to strengthen water security in Central Asia
The European Union and the World Bank signed an agreement for a new €7 million grant to support water and energy security in Central Asia.
IHA releases 2019 Hydropower Status Report charting growth in renewable hydro
More than 21.8 gigawatts (GW) of renewable hydroelectric capacity was put into operation last year, according to the 2019 Hydropower Status Report which is published on the eve of the World Hydropower Congress in Paris.
DEWA to dig 20 wells in drought-affected areas in 7 countries
DEWA will support Well of Hope by digging 20 wells in drought-affected areas in 7 countries.
ADB supports modernization of Uch-Kurgan Hydropower Plant, Kyrgyz Republic
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $100 million financing package to modernize aging equipment and improve power generation capacity at the Uch-Kurgan hydropower plant (HPP), the oldest of the six HPPs installed along the Naryn River cascade in the Kyrgyz Republic.
World Bank supports rehabilitation of the Nurek Hydro Power Plant in Tajikistan
The first phase of the Nurek Rehabilitation Project, co-financed by the World Bank, was officially launched by the President of the Republic of Tajikistan, Emomali Rahmon, and the World Bank’s Director of Strategy and Operations for Europe and Central Asia, Mariam Sherman.
“Women are equal before the law, but a lot remains to be done to have real equality”
Gari Villa-Landa, Head of International Affairs at the Spanish Association of Water Supply and Sanitation (AEAS), answers our questions about Women and Water.