Cloud seeding in Kazakhstan — dispute with neighbors persists three months later Kazakhstan's drought-fighting program, launched in May, still sparks controversy three months later.
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.
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.
Kazakhstan established a scientific institute for monitoring the Caspian Sea. Kazakhstan marks Caspian Sea Day on Aug. 12 by reporting enhanced scientific monitoring of the planet's largest enclosed water body.
Water without losses — this is how "Ädilet" sees the future of Kazakhstan's canals The water section of the “Ädilet” program is detailed—and for good reason: water scarcity in Kazakhstan is no longer a distant threat.
France has imposed water restrictions across almost the entire country. French summer, which already halted nuclear reactors and claimed thousands of heat-related lives, hit a new milestone: water-use restrictions now cover nearly 70% of the country.
Kazakhstan proposes uniting farmers into irrigation condominiums Half of Kazakhstan's 2.5 million hectares of irrigated land from 1991 has gone out of use, cutting its share in crop output from over 30% to 5–6%.