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Quantity and Quality: Strengthening of the Knowledge-Based and Data-Driven Decision Making and Cooperation for Security and Peace

Supporting Water Data Sharing for

Cooperation and Peace: The Case

Study on the Transboundary Basin of

the Chu-Talas Rivers (Kazakhstan/ “UNECE helps Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan to cooperate on water
Kyrgyzstan) management”, 2011 UNECE/UN TV, http://bit.ly/2tRGuJq

The regular exchange of data and information on water resources and their uses is
fundamental to establishing cooperation between riparian States. Since 2014, initially
through the Innovative Monitoring and Modelling (iMoMo) project and currently the
Water Accounting in Transboundary Chu-Talas River Basins project, the Swiss Agency
for Development and Cooperation (SDC) is supporting the daily sharing of hydrological
data between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in the Chu-Talas transboundary basin.

In 2015, the Transboundary Water Commission on the Chu-Talas Rivers between
Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan requested the publication of quarterly hydrological
bulletins and interactive online schemes. The International Office for Water (IOWater)
provided technical support and logistical assistance to collect the data and publish
the material. Under the supervision of the Commission, these quarterly bulletins are
now published regularly and the interactive schemes allow online consultation of the
data on river water flows and the levels of the main water intakes for irrigation. Data
is provided by national experts and five institutions from the two countries.

Source: Direction de la Coopération Internationale, International Office for Water (IOWater).
http://www.imomohub.kg/eng/home/

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