Dam safety in Central Asia : capacity-building and regional cooperation /
"To prevent major dam accidents in Central Asia, two United Nations regional commissions -- the UN Economic Commission for Europe and the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific -- are launching a project to help Central Asian countries work together to improve dam safety. Ce...
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| Format: | Government Document Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; Geneva :
United Nations,
2007.
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| Series: | Water series (United Nations. Economic Commission for Europe) ;
no. 5. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | "To prevent major dam accidents in Central Asia, two United Nations regional commissions -- the UN Economic Commission for Europe and the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific -- are launching a project to help Central Asian countries work together to improve dam safety. Central Asia has around 300 major dams and other water control facilities, mostly on rivers separating countries. The dams are aging and are not adequately maintained. Meanwhile, the number of people living downstream from dams is growing. For example, the Fergana valley, which is divided among Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, has 9 million inhabitants. If a dam upstream from this valley were to break, the consequences could be disastrous ... The first goal is to help countries establish dam safety regulatory networks that are in harmony with the networks of neighbouring countries, and to ensure that relevant principles are reflected in national legislation. While Uzbekistan has an adequate legal framework in this regard, frameworks in the other countries are not as well developed. Having harmonized institutional and legal networks makes it easier to share information about the status of specific dams. The project's second goal is to promote cooperation between countries so that information can be shared quickly about the risk of accidents, and so that countries can effectively warn and help neighbouring countries in case of an actual accident. This way, if a dam is in serious risk of collapsing, downstream regions are given a chance to react in time ... The Central Asian subregion includes Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan."--UNECE website |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook EngineeringCore EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 74 pages) : color illustrations, map |
| ISBN: | 9789210543392 9210543394 |
