Water usage along the agrarian, lower reaches of the Syr Darya “including water withdrawal plus water losses, minus lateral inflow is estimated at 4.29 km3; this is less by 18 percent of the plan,” ...

In this second episode, writer and traveller Cédric Gras follows the course of the Syr Darya River which feeds the still existing Aral Sea. There is hope that its water volume will increase. However, ...