Shardara received more water than expected — Kazakhstan's water diplomacy worked
As summer 2026 sets European river-shrinking records, Kazakhstan quietly but intensively pursues its own water diplomacy.
Syr Darya
Five Central Asian countries launched a program to restore the Amu Darya and Syr Darya basins.
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan have joined the CAWLN program to restore watersheds of Central Asia's two major rivers, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya.
The world divided the most scarce water — Kazakhstan got half as much in 2026
A direct link emerges between the global water scarcity ranking and new quotas for the Syr Darya and Amu Darya: Turkmenistan, a world leader in per capita water use, shares the same river basin as southern Kazakhstan.