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DAM-L Uzbekistan, etc. and estuarine impacts of too much water abstraction
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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 23:04:53 -0700
Subject: Fw: by Dr. McKinney.
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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 20:43:52 -0700
Subject: by Dr. McKinney.
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To quote from Michael Rozengurt and Joel Hedgpeth, two American
university scientists who studied the Soviet environmental situation in 1989:
"When these failures in understanding ecological effects are combined with
notions of cost-benefit analysis and tradeoffs that justify the demands for
water beyond the river limit, the synergistic result may accelerate the
destruction of the estuarine system involved."
I was able to see firsthand the magnitude of a failure to include realistic
environmental policy in resource development in Kazakstan and Uzbekistan,
two of the newly independent states of Central Asia. I was invited there by
those governments to assist in their efforts to redress years of environmental
abuse that occurred under the former Soviet Union. An entire water body, the
Aral Sea, is drying up because of thoughtless diversion to convert over a
million acres of desert into agriculture. The effort to achieve that goal
has left large areas as ecological disaster zones, doomed large segments of
the region's population to chronic heath problems and left almost
insurmountable problems for governments of the new countries to solve.
Wars of the next century will be over water according to a report from the
World Bank, and this is one of the areas where they could happen.
p.s. Let It Flow!
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