About 40 billion cubic metres of water were sent to Lake Balkhash over the past three years. In Turkistan Region, cropland is irrigated using water-saving technologies.
Over the same three-year period, the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation carried out multi-factor surveys of 138 hydraulic structures.
On October 29, Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation and South Hydro Power LLP signed an agreement on a project to build a group water pipeline with a cascade of hydropower plants in Turkistan Region. The project is part of the implementation of the Head of State’s Address.