Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev is studying the possibility to deliver water of Siberian rivers to the Central Asian region. \"I have been raising the issue recently,\" Nazarbayev said at a joint press conference with Uzbek President Islam Karimov in Astana on Monday. Diverting Siberian rivers will not have a negative impact on the environment, he said. \"Populist statements [of the Soviet era] that this is dangerous were wrong,\" the Kazakh president said, adding that it was calculated in the USSR that \"the bogs of the Ob river will not be drained\" as a result of diverting Siberian rivers to Central Asia, he said. \"This will only affect 8% of Siberian rivers,\" Nazarbayev said. (Interfax)