Water Stories
Contents
Lake Balkhash
KAZAkhstan
30 Two Sides to One Reservoir
78 Lake Balkhash – The Next Aral?
Issyk Kul
Kyrgyzstan
Syr Dar ya
18 the Drowned Hopes of Ketmen-Tube
40 The Leaking Roof of the World
62 Hydroelectric Diplomacy
66 Issyk Kul Pushed to Its Limits
76 Poisoned Spring
TAJIKISTAN
24 Where Rice Once Grew
40 The Leaking Roof of the World
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introduction n-ost
foreword German Federal
Foreign Office
Travels on the Syr darya
Changing the Façade
“You can’t just accept the
Aral is doomed!”
Water – Commodity or Gift of God?
Imprint
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