SDC - Water management in Ferghana Valley, phase III 2005-2008

Project Title :

Water management in Ferghana Valley, phase II

Organisation :

SDC

Partner(s) :

BVO Syr Darya, The Interstate Commission for Water Coordination (ICWC), The Scientific Information Center ICWC (SIC-ICWC), The International Water Management Institute IWMI

National partners / Water Management Organizations

The leading partners of the Project will be three principal bodies at national level:

• Kyrgyz Ministry for Agriculture, Water Resources and Processing Industry
• Tajik Ministry for Water Resources and Reclamation
• Ministry for Agriculture and Water Resources of the Republic of Uzbekistan

(More (incl. local level partners))

Region :

Central Asia / Ferghana Valley

Project Number :

KA: 7F-00934.02

Duration :

• Phase I (inception): September 2001 30 April 2002
• Phase II: May 2002 - April 2005
• Phase III: 01 May 2005 - 30 April 2008

Financing (US$) :

• Phase I:
• Phase II: CHF 2‘800‘000.– (approx. USD 2.5-2.6 M.)
• Phase III:

Status :

On-going (Phase III)

URL :

http://iwrm.icwc-aral.uz/stages_en.htm

Description :

The project covers new management of the water supply in the Ferghana Valley where locals are battling with excessive salinity, desiccation and declining agricultural fertility. Part of the responsibility for these phenomena lies primarily with uneconomic irrigation systems where approximately 50 percent of the water goes to waste. Under this project, the aim is to identify ways of saving water and increasing soil fe