Today what worries all the
humans on the earth is the most precious thing of all “water”. I have
based my hypothesis on water by seeing what is going on in Uzbekistan. The
earth’s valuables fresh water is found in glaciers, lakes, streams, and
rivers. There are three ways in which fresh water exists, standing water,
running water, and frozen water.
First reason what I think is that what makes people to use less amount of
water in some countries is the amount of money you are paying for it. In
Uzbekistan people don’t pay for water. This is one of the major weaknesses
of the government of Uzbekistan. People in Uzbekistan are misusing water.
In Tashkent where I live, there is plenty of water, but if you’ll take a
look in some of the western areas of the country, they have been scarce
from water. Day by day, slowly the western areas like Aral Sea, Nukus and
others are turning into deserts.
If you over here go in some local houses, you’ll often notice that the
water tap is remained opened and the water is running and being wasted. In
the main rivers Syr Darya and Amu Darya, there is very low amount of water
left to feed the population of the country. In Nukus, people are begging
and dying everyday just because they don’t get enough water what they had
expected. The craving for water has turned the Aral Sea, once the world’s
sixth largest ocean into a shrunken body of lake. And still, the areas are
thirsty. Their demand for water already exceeds the entire water flow, so
there demands are getting higher and higher for water everyday. In theses
areas, there isn’t enough rain or as you call precipitation. They are also
not keeping up the water works, which are wasting the water. The deserts
in the areas are blossoming and the Aral Sea became starved for water.
One of the results to waste the water was irrigation during Soviet Union,
and from this Aral Sea is becoming saltier and saltier. The farmlands are
too salty to support crops. In Khiva, the water level is very low.
Uzbekistan has not enough money to pay for the maintenance because in the
way through Samarkand, there are huge pipes of water what they use for is
to irrigate the fields, but sometimes this water enormously leeks because
of the poor conditions of the pipes. These pipes were made in Soviet Union
and aren’t being repaired up till now.
Well, by seeing these kinds of conditions, I can only say that they use
more water like in Tashkent, and don’t even care about the people in
western part of the country, if they have more organization to support
this issue and to help prevent the water, so people in Karakalpakstan,
Nukus and Aral Sea areas can receive much more water of what they had
expected before.
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