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Saturday, 17 August 2002
WORLD BANK TURNS DOWN UZBEK REQUEST TO FUND RIVER-DIVERSION PROJECT
By empty (8/17/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The World Bank will not provide funds toward the cost of reviving the grandiose project first unveiled in the 1980s to divert two Siberian rivers southward to provide water for Central Asia, according to World Bank representative in Tashkent David Pears. The project was shelved in the early 1990s shortly after preparatory work got under way; Uzbek scientists have recently suggested reviving it. Pears, however, argued that Uzbekistan should make more effective use of the water resources currently at its disposal.
The World Bank will not provide funds toward the cost of reviving the grandiose project first unveiled in the 1980s to divert two Siberian rivers southward to provide water for Central Asia, according to World Bank representative in Tashkent David Pears. The project was shelved in the early 1990s shortly after preparatory work got under way; Uzbek scientists have recently suggested reviving it. Pears, however, argued that Uzbekistan should make more effective use of the water resources currently at its disposal. (Interfax)