In case you missed this yesterday - Kyrgyzstan & Kazakhstan: Water Dispute Highlights Potential for Conflict A water and land dispute between villagers living on the border between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan has been smoothed over after the governments in Astana and Bishkek were forced to intervene. A canal which Kyrgyz villagers had blocked for 10 days, plugging the flow of water to farmers on the Kazakh side of the border, has been re-opened, Kyrgyzstan’s Kabar news agency reports. The water supply was restored on July 17, after Astana sent an official protest letter to Bishkek. Some 50 or 60 inhabitants of the village of Kok-Say in northwestern Kyrgyzstan’s Talas Region stopped the flow of water on July 7, demanding that a 2,600-hectare parcel of land ceded to Kazakhstan in a border agreement back in 2001 be returned to Kyrgyzstan (which was allocated a different plot of land the same size in exchange). eurasianet.org/node/67267
Posted on: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:54:03 +0000
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