2.5. Technical Aspects of Water Management Improvement on the Interstate,
System and Inter-farm Levels
The main technical directions for improving WM and WO relate to low-cost measures
to increase the accuracy of water measuring, forecast of water flow, and
implementation of set models. These will reduce operational losses and deviations
from fair proportional water allocation, and also increase trust, transparency, and
mutual understanding among all water management organizations and stakeholders.
Measures to strengthen capacity building for those goals include those discussed
below.
2.5.1. Improving the Accuracy of Water Measurement and Forecasts of
Water Resources
As was mentioned earlier, the number of measuring points on the rivers – and of
those monitoring snow melting and ice melting contributions to flow – has fallen
drastically. Even such important observation points as monitoring stations on the
Fedchenko and Abramov glaciers, which had existed since 1911, went out of
operation. The rehabilitation of thirty old stations and the creation of nine new ones
by the GEF Project are very important, and mark the first step towards improvement.
The big advantage of the new project is the delivery of automatic stations for
measuring water quality. These will make possible not only temporary but also
permanent recording of water quality in six components. A further requirement is to
install equipment that has direct connections between measuring points, hydromet
centers, and BWOs. To rehabilitate existing monitoring points in mountains, the SIC
ICWC propose to install between five and ten remote-controlled automatic
meteorological stations at such important forecast points as the Abramov glacier and
Fedchenko glacier. Some progress has been supported by USAID and SDC. The
required investments amount to US$7.5 million in addition to GEF Project Component
“D.” This work also includes snowmelt and icemelt forecast of flow formation in the
upper watershed of rivers.
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