Nura Sarysu River Basin (Nura Sarysu, Kazakhstan)

Expanding Support to Water Accounting in River Basins and Water Productivity Measurement in Irrigation Projects

The water accounting study for Kazakhstan supports the Irrigation rehabilitation project (KAZ 50387-001) and focusses on the Nura-Sarysu river basin. The Nura-Sarysu WEB is an internal drainage basin, entirely located within the country borders of Kazakhstan covering an area of 139,700 km2. As the majority of the agriculture takes place with in the Nura river basin, which drains to Lake Tengiz, the focus of the water accounting analyses was on the drainage catchment of Lake Tengiz.

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