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Water apportioning and runoff regulation in the joint use of water-power resources of transboundary rivers in Central Asia

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The major rivers of Central Asia are transboundary rivers, used for countries of the region for both irrigation and hydropower production. This determines a conflict of interests between those sectors, which, after 1991, rose to an intergovernmental level. The paper shows that the solution of this problem is possible only through integration in utilizing the potentialities of the existing United Power Grid of Central Asian Countries.

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Original Russian Text © G.N. Petrov, 2015, published in Vodnye Resursy, 2015, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 240–246.

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Petrov, G.N. Water apportioning and runoff regulation in the joint use of water-power resources of transboundary rivers in Central Asia. Water Resour 42, 269–274 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0097807815020116

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