Kazakhstan

GEOGRAPHY AND POPULATION

area of 2,717,300 squarekilometres(km2)

Deserts and steppes account for more than 80% of the total area The cultivable area is estimated at 222 million hectares(82%) totalpopulationis 16.8 million of which 40% is rural

RIVER BASINS AND WATER RESOURCES

Four major hydrologic regions

Arctic Ocean through the Ob River Caspian Sea Aral Sea internal lakes and depressions

Arctic Ocean through the Ob River

OB RIVER
The most longest river in Russia and the second-longest in Asia located in Western Siberia Most of the Ob basin is within Russia, but its southern portion forms the northernmost part ofKazakhstan.

Caspian sea and Aral sea

Caspian sea
Worlds

largest lake

Has asalinityof approximately 1.2%

Aral sea
Sea

of Islands, referring to more than 1,534 islands that once dotted its waters one of the planet's worst environmental disasters

DAMS and Hydroelectric power stations

Dike kokaral

Kokaral Damhas been completed in 2005 in order to save the Nothern Aral Sea from further shrinkage.

Medeu (Medeo) Mudflow Control Damis a dam across the Medeu Valley in Kazakhstan

TheKapshagay Hydroelectric Power Plantis a hydroelectricity powerplant on theIli RiverinAlmaty ProvinceofKazakhstan

TheMoinak Hydro Power Plantis ahydro powerplant on theCharyn RiverinAlmaty ProvinceofKazakhstan.

Irrigation systems

Drop/drip Irrigation

Drop/drip Irrigation

Drop/drip Irrigation