Balkhash

Managing Transboundary Rivers for Tigers and Poplars

October 23, 2018, 4:29 am October 23, 2018

At the Eighth session of the Meeting of the Parties to the Water Convention on 12 of October 2018 in Astana, Kazakhstan, the RwB International Coordinator Eugene Simonov delivered a presentation on freshwater ecosystem preservation in the era of “Belt and Road “.(See presentation here) Simonov and Mazmanyanz at the …

Balkhash, Central Asia, Irtysh, Ob

Will new agreements protect Sino-Kazakh shared basins?

February 25, 2014, 6:59 am December 11, 2021

China has a bad record when it comes to water cooperation. It was one of only three countries (along with Turkey and Burundi) to vote against the UN Watercourses Convention – the only global agreement on the use of international watercourses – when it was adopted in 1997. China controls …