The Minister of Ecology checked the work of water management facilities in the West Kazakhstan region

Minister of Ecology, Geology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan Magzum Mirzagaliyev during a working trip to the West Kazakhstan region got acquainted with the work of the Bartholomew reservoir. Farmers of the region reported to the head of the department about the problem of water shortage in the fields and the state of reservoirs.

The Varfolomeyevskoye reservoir, located 440 km from the city of Uralsk and 70 km from the village of Kaztalovka, on the Maly Uzen River, is a hydroelectric center of interstate significance. It is designed to distribute the flow of the Maly Uzen River between the Saratov region of the Russian Federation and the West Kazakhstan Region, as well as to create a water backwater for gravity water supply to the estuaries of the two regions.

In addition, it is planned to build a new reservoir on the Bolshoy Uzen River. It will be located near the village of Zhalpaktal, Kaztalov district. The issue of taking 135 million cubic meters of water from the Yedil River is also being worked out, so that water can be steadily supplied to the southern regions of the region. For these purposes, 3.5 billion tenge is needed from the republican budget.

From the Varfolomeyevsky reservoir, water is supplied along the Maly Uzen River in the Zhanibek, Kaztalovsky and Zhangalinsky districts of the WKO, suspended areas: 1,637 hectares of regular irrigation, 44,018 hectares of estuarine irrigation, 323,700 hectares of watered pastures. Water is supplied to the lakes Aydin, Saryaydyn, Kambakty and Kamysh-Samara spills to preserve the normal ecological situation in the territories of the southern regions of the West Kazakhstan Region. The reservoir's capacity is 23 million m3.

 

Press release prepared by the press service of the Ministry of Ecology, Geology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan