ASTANA, Kazakhstan, February 26. Kazakhstan has expressed interest in cooperation with Israeli BlueGen Water in water management, Trend reports.
This was stated during the meeting between the Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Israel Satybaldy Burshakov and the General Manager of Business Development of BlueGen Water, Liad Sivan.
Liad Sivan presented the company’s activities and implemented projects in the field of wastewater treatment and reclamation systems, as well as water circulation, sewer systems, water supply systems and the development of pipeline networks.
In turn, Burshakov, noting the importance of using water-saving technologies, seawater desalination and wastewater treatment, pointed out the existing potential for cooperation in this area. In this regard, it was also noted that the government of Kazakhstan attaches key importance to water conservation projects.
As a result of the negotiations, the parties reached an agreement to study interested projects in the field of water resources, as well as to organize a visit of representatives of the company to the regions of Kazakhstan in the near future.
Meanwhile, Kazakhstan will build 20 new and reconstruct 15 existing water reservoirs by 2030. This is provided for by the draft concept for the development of the water resources management system for 2024–2030, which was adopted today at a meeting of the government of Kazakhstan.
Thus, to ensure the country’s water security, it is planned to build 20 new and reconstruct 15 existing reservoirs, as well as modernize more than 14,000 km of irrigation canals and hydraulic facilities.
Unproductive water losses during transportation are planned to be reduced from 50 to 25 percent, and available water resources are to be increased by 2.4 cubic km. In general, the implementation of the planned approaches will make it possible to increase the area of irrigated land to 2.5 million hectares by 2030.
In addition, to encourage farmers to use water-saving technologies, the share of subsidizing costs for the creation of irrigation systems, as well as the purchase of drip and sprinkler irrigation equipment, will be increased from 50 to 80 percent.
It is expected that, thanks to this, the area of irrigated land with water-saving technologies will increase to 1.3 million hectares, about 2.1 cubic km of water will be saved, and agricultural yields will also significantly increase.
