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Hydrologic Controls and Water Vulnerabilities in the Naryn River Basin, Kyrgyzstan: A Socio-Hydro Case Study of Water Stressors in Central Asia

Water (Basel), 2017-05, Vol.9 (5), p.325 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
Hydrologic Controls and Water Vulnerabilities in the Naryn River Basin, Kyrgyzstan: A Socio-Hydro Case Study of Water Stressors in Central Asia
Author: Hill, Alice ; Minbaeva, Cholpon ; Wilson, Alana ; Satylkanov, Rysbek
Subjects: Adaptation ; Agricultural management ; Agriculture ; Aquatic resources ; Case studies ; Climate ; Climate change ; Communities ; Control systems ; Downstream ; Elevation ; Farming ; Geography ; Glaciers ; Groundwater ; Headwaters ; Hydroelectric power ; Hydrologic models ; Hydrology ; Ice ; Infrastructure ; Irrigation ; Kyrgyzstan ; Meltwater ; Organizations ; Politics ; Polls & surveys ; River basins ; Rivers ; Sensitivity ; Snow ; Summer ; Supplies ; Surveys ; Time measurement ; Water ; Water management ; Water scarcity ; Water stress ; Water supply ; Water, Underground ; Watersheds
Is Part Of: Water (Basel), 2017-05, Vol.9 (5), p.325
Description: Water vulnerabilities in Central Asia are affected by a complex combination of climate-sensitive water sources, trans-boundary political tensions, infrastructure deficiencies and a lack of water management organization from community to federal levels. This study aims to clarify the drivers of water stress across the 440 km Naryn River basin, headwater stem to the Syr Darya and the disappearing North Aral Sea. We use a combination of human and physical geography approaches to understand the meltwater-controlled hydrology of the system (using hydrochemical mixing models) as well as the human-water experience (via community surveys). Surveys indicate that current water stress is primarily a function of water management and access issues resulting from the clunky transition from Soviet era large-scale agriculture to post-Soviet small-plot farming. Snow and ice meltwaters play a dominant role in the surface and ground water supplies to downstream communities across the study’s 4220 m elevation gradient, so future increases to water stress due to changes in volume and timing of water supply is likely given frozen waters’ high sensitivities to warming temperatures. The combined influence of social, political and climate-induced pressures on water supplies in the Naryn basin suggest the need for proactive planning and adaptation strategies, and warrant concern for similar melt-sourced Central Asian watersheds.
Publisher: Basel: MDPI AG
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 2073-4441
EISSN: 2073-4441
DOI: 10.3390/w9050325
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Hydrologic Controls and Water Vulnerabilities in the Naryn River Basin, Kyrgyzstan: A Socio-Hydro Case Study of Water Stressors in Central Asia

COPYRIGHT 2017 MDPI AG ;Copyright MDPI AG 2017 ;ISSN: 2073-4441 ;EISSN: 2073-4441 ;DOI: 10.3390/w9050325

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