![]() ![]() ![]() Though the water is in a Kyrgyz reservoir, but it does not belong solely to Kyrgyzstan despite the protests of a few politicians who believe it should be considered a state commodity.ĭownstream countries Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan depend on the water in the spring and summer for their vast agricultural fields. But water levels are already critically low and the country needs the reservoir to be as full as possible for other reasons. Kyrgyzstan will allow some water through its massive Toktogul hydropower plant (HPP) to generate some domestic electricity as it usually does during the winter. Now all three of those countries recently stopped sending electricity to Kyrgyzstan and it is unclear if any of them will be able to help keep the lights on in Kyrgyzstan in the coming months.Ī report on November 19 cited the Kyrgyz Energy Ministry as saying the country had already received all of the promised electricity from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan under the deals.Ī severe drought has badly hurt the primary domestic source of energy for Kyrgyzstan, which is hydropower. People in Kyrgyzstan knew that a rough winter was coming.īut because Kyrgyzstan had deals to import electricity from Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, it seemed to have solved some of its critical energy problems this winter. ![]()
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