Water: Ili Balkhash

• http://water.unesco.kz/bal_ch_6_e.htm
• http://www.icsu-asia-pacific.org/resource_centre/EA%20in%20Basin%20mgmy%20Kazakhstan.pdf (error, cached text: http://209.85.175.104/search?q=cache:KiCzHrLHedgJ:www.icsu-asia-pacific.org/resource_centre/EA%2520in%2520Basin%2520mgmy%2520Kazakhstan.pdf+ili+balkhash&hl=tl&ct=clnk&cd=9&gl=ph&client=firefox-a

Water: Syr Darya

Maps:

• http://earthtrends.wri.org/text/water-resources/map-371.html
• http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/578814/Syr-Darya
• Syr Darya river basin (2007-10): http://www.grid.unep.ch/product/map/images/aral_2_syr_daryab.jpg

Technical:

• http://www.cawater-info.net/syrdarya/geo_e.htm
• http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/Research_Impacts/Research_Themes/BasinWaterManagement/adapt/index.aspx

travel site:

• http://www.orexca.com/syr_darya_river_uzbekistan.shtml
  

Water: Caspian Sea

• http://www.caspianenvironment.org/caspian.htm
• http://www.giwa.net/publications/r23.phtml
• Photos: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/reza/index.html

Technical:

• http://water.unesco.kz/contents_e.htm#2

Climate

General:

• http://www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/gis/index3.stm

Country:

Kazakhstan: http://www.cac-biodiversity.org/kaz/kaz_climate.htm

Central Asia

• http://www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/regions/fussr/index2.stm

Country profiles:

• http://www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/countries/kazakhstan/index.stm
• http://www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/countries/kyrgyzstan/index.stm
• http://www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/countries/tajikistan/index.stm
• http://www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/countries/turkmenistan/index.stm
• http://www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/countries/uzbekistan/index.stm

Fact sheets (per country, downloaded):

• http://www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/countries/index.stm

Reports:

• WSSD (2001): www.rrcap.unep.org/wssd/documents/01%20CA%20Report.pdf

Water: Chui Talas

• http://www.waterwiki.net/index.php/Kyrgyzstan/Kazakhstan_-_Formation_of_a_Chu-Talas_Rivers_Commission

• http://www.unesco.org/water/wwap/pccp/zaragoza/basins/chu_talas/chu_talas_iwrm.pdf (downloaded)
• Chu-Talas Joint Rivers Commission Established Under ADB Project …http://www.adb.org/Documents/News/URM/urm-200609.asp
• http://www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/countries/kyrgyzstan/index.stm
• http://www.unesco.org/water/wwap/pccp/zaragoza/basins/chu_talas/index.shtml (downloaded)
• http://www.adb.org/Water/WFP/basin.asp

Water, General

• Interstate Commission for Water Coordination of Central Asia: http://www.icwc-aral.uz/ (with many links, includes an online database on water stats and management)
• UNEP  GRID: http://www.grid.unep.ch
• UNDP Water Wiki: http://www.waterwiki.net
• Transboundary River basins: http://www.waterwiki.net/index.php/Situation_in_Central_Asia

Water: Amu Darya

Amu Darya river basin (2007-10):

http://www.grid.unep.ch/product/map/images/aral_1_amu_darya.jpg

http://www.grid.unep.ch/GRID_search_details.php?dataid=19C48705

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Technical:

• http://www.cawater-info.net/amudarya/geo_e.htm

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Travel site: http://www.orexca.com/amudarya_uzbekistan.shtml

Kazakhstan: Service Sector

• Asian Development Outlook 2007 – Kazakhstan: http://www.adb.org/Documents/Books/ADO/2007/KAZ.pdf
• http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/economies/Asia-and-the-Pacific/Kazakhstan-SERVICES.html
• http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-31161241_ITM

Kazakhstan: Lake Balkash

• UNEP: http://www.grid.unep.ch/activities/sustainable/balkhash/index.php
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Balkhash