Water in Central Asia: Rogun and Kambarata-1
... After the Soviet Union collapsed, the market made energy resources too expensive to buy for poor countries like Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, so they found a way out of this - they want to make electricity from what they think they have a lot - from water. In addition, upstream countries not only want to produce electricity, they also want ot sell it, possibly to Afghanistan. What is unclear in this discourse around HPPs projects is that Uzbekistan, the main adversary of this idea, is much more concerned about Rogun, than about Kambarata. If you simply compare the ...
11.04.2013