CAREWIB Regional Information System

The regional information system on water and land resources in the Aral Sea Basin was designed to support decision-making process addressing water sector.
The main objective - to serve as common tool for accounting land and water resources in the Aral Sea basin dynamics aiming assessment of diverse aspects of their use and effectiveness. It should facilitate sustainable management and control of water resources use.
The system gives an opportunity to steadily evaluate water effectiveness in all uses and specify the non-productive losses.
The information system shared by all riparian states that encourages confidence, solidarity and sense of mutual responsibility.
Available data series since 1980 (time interval: year/season/month).
The most completed water-related database includes more than 150 parameters.

  Analysis of water-related situation in river basins of Amudarya and Syrdarya

Analytical information on the water situation in the basins for 10-day periods.

  On-line data of the BWO Amudarya

On-line database on actual ten-day water withdrawal in the Amudarya river basin.

  On-line data of the BWO Syrdarya

On-line database on actual ten-day water withdrawal in the Syrdarya river basin.

  Database of the Aral Sea

The main indicators of the Aral Sea

  Rivers of Afghanistan: database

Data on 16 rivers in Afghanistan

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Tajikistan

Turkmenistan

Uzbekistan

Afghanistan

More:

  Country Studies

  World Facts

  CIA — The World Factbook

  The Aral Sea Basin Management Model

Description of the Aral Sea Basin Management Model

  Database on the water-management organizations “Water Atlas”

The database “Water Atlas” contains information on the water-management and donor's organizations divided into three categories: international, regional and national.

  Database “Who is Who in Water Management”

The database “Who is Who in Water Management” contains information about people working in water management.

  Ecological NGOs of Central Asia [pdf, 340 kB]

Data provided by CAREC

  Addresses of the Water Management Authorities of the Central Asia

Contact information about Water Management Authorities of the Central Asia

  International River Basins of the World

Register which lists 261 international rivers, covering 45.3% of the land-surface of the Earth

  International River Basin Organizations [pdf, 34 kB]

International River Basin Organizations est. 1815-2002

  GRID-Arendal's map collection

  Old maps of Russian Asia (Central Asia / Turkestan / Pamir)

  Asia Maps, University of Texas at Austin

  Asia Historical Maps, University of Texas at Austin

  Regional Data Archive: Aral Sea at Space Monitoring Information Support Laboratory (SMIS) of Space Research Institute (IKI RAN)

  State of Environment by UNECE

  State of Environment of the Central Asian States by GRID-Arendal