Not a single additional water reservoir, changing Amudarya and Syrdarya rivers regime, was built for years of independence in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Areas of irrigated lands in near Aral region did not increase, cotton production in the region decreased almost twice as a whole, rice – triply, but for some reason water problem intensifies more and more. It means that these are not main reasons, but rather irrational water usage and absence of mutual understanding between countries in management of hydraulic works. This is the opinion of former members of International Aral Saving Fund (IASF) executive committee Suleimanov, Akramov, Bozov, Bayalimov, Ovezov, which they reported in their message published today, June 2, on Uzmentronom.
Myths of providing grandiose help, directed towards Aral Sea saving, started in the period of Gorbachyov”s perestroika, and continue to this day, article stated. Today world is concerned with “fighting for ecology” and that is why it became prestigious for any government. International organizations and financial institutes – UN, OSCE, IMF, WB, and others, governments of donor countries chose ecological and water problems for demonstration of their efforts in world problems solving and self advertising.
Ecological problems can be written about unaccountably, talked and bugged about as much as one wishes, but along with this no one is responsible for anything, no one has the right to demand audit. That is why everyone (to everyone”s wishes) can announce investments running into billions. But for all these years not a single donor country or international organization published concrete schemes of expenses for these or those works anywhere. Conferences, seminars, extensional reports, and various statements on mythic investments continue, but no one talks about their concrete participation or publishes figures, at the same time, proclaiming transparency and accessibility of information. That is why myth about help to Aral running into billions continues to wander from report to report, experts stated.
