27Feb 2017

STUDY ON ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACT OF SECOND PHASE SYRDARYA CONTROL AND NORTHERN ARAL SEA (SYNAS) PROJECT.

  • UN ? Tongji Institute of Environment for Sustainable Development, Tongji university, Shanghai 200092, China.
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The Aral Sea was once the world\'s fourthlargest inland body of water, but has been forever altered by the USSR irrigation policies to reclaim the desert for cotton farming by rerouting the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers.The lake shrunk to a quarter of its original size in a few decades, creating an environmental and public health disaster. However, the completion of theKok-Aral damin 2005 (the first phase project) has yielded some positive results in recovery of the Northern Aral Sea recently. Local economies, long dependent on the water, were making a comeback. Thesecond phaserecovery project began in late 2012.The city of Aralsk has suffered most from a receding Aral Sea. The construction of a dam to raise the water to 46 m level in Saryshiganak bay will alleviate this problem. Environmental and social impacts of the second phase recovery project have been studied in this work, andthe results have showed that further recovery of fish population, biodiversity, aquacultures, wildlife, fishery industry and local climate is expected after its completion.Implementation of this project will result in the increase of the total area of the Small Aral Sea, and as a result, increase the volume of water lost by evaporation from its surface to equalize the gain and loss parts of the water balance, stabilizing salinity. This will stop further freshening of the sea and associated adverse changes in its fauna.

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[Aidana Oskenbayeva, Wenying Xu, Ville Nyyssonen and Ramesh Kumar Neupane. (2017); STUDY ON ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACT OF SECOND PHASE SYRDARYA CONTROL AND NORTHERN ARAL SEA (SYNAS) PROJECT. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Feb). 1659-1674] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

Oskenbayeva Aidana ,Wenying Xu
UN – Tongji Institute of Environment for Sustainable Development, Tongji university, Shanghai 200092, China

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/3330      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/3330

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