Transcript Ministry of Environmental Protection of the RK

Ministry of Environmental Protection of the RK
Ministry of Economy and Budget Planning of the RK
Committee on Water Resources of the MoA RK
European Commission
Regional Environmental Center for Central Asia
Project
«Development of Integrated Management Plan for IliBalkhash Basin»
Iskander Mirkhashimov – Project Manager
Almaty
23.10.2007
IBB physical and geographical posiion
Administrative Provision regarding IBB
Natural potential and loads
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IBB area - 413 thousand sq. km
About 45000 small and 40 average size rivers
12 types of ecosystems
50 animal species, 269 bird species and 20 fish
species are to be found
SPNT – 3 thousand kilometers
Population - more than 3 mln people
About 5mln heads of live-stock.
Size of agricultural lands -12.600 thousand hectares
Sown area - 1.300 thousand hectares
Pastures – 10.400 thousand hectares
6000 of water bodies and water reservoirs
IBB: volumes of water use
Cubic km\year
Agricultural sector 3.01
Public water supply
sector - 0.28
Industry- 0.29
Fish industry - 0.03
---------------------------Total in 2006 г. -3.61
1992- 7.42
Balkhash Lake
The Lake Length - 605 km,
The Lake width – 9-74 km
Overall depth - 26 m.
Average depth -6 m
Surface area with marks
BS БС: 340, 0 - 342,0 m
14120 – 18210 km2,
Volume 72,2 –106,0 km3
Total inflow (rivers,
precipitation)- 24,7 km3
Evaporation -19.8 km3
Ili – main IBB river
• 1439 km – total river
length
• 815 km – in Kazakhstan
• 75 % - water catchment
area of IBB
• 80% - summary inflow
from the surface
watercourse into the lake
Balkhash.
Ili – main IBB river
• Flow off from the
territory of the CPR
-13,95 km3
• Flow off from the
territory of the RK -6,16 km3
• Total–20,11 km3
• Flow off into the
Lake Balkhash
-15,043 km3
-----------------Data for 2006.
Rivers of the Eastern part of the Lake
Balkhash
Karatal, Aksu, Charyn,
Lepsy, Ayaguz
Bring to the Lake
3.6-4.1. km3\year
Environmental-economic problems
• Glacier shrinking
• Climate aridization
• Desertification of territories
• Reduction of the number of small rivers and lake area
• Transformation of phytocenosis, pasture degradation
• Decrease of land yield and land productivity
• Decrease of the area of mountain and tugai forests
• Loss of specie diversity and reduction in the number
of commercial species
• Decrease of the volumes and quality of agricultural
product
Major causes of degradation in IBB
• Predominance of economic and corporate interests
over social and environmental ones;
• Lack of common goals and long-term programs on
basin development on the part of sectors and akimats;
fragmentary division of power and responsibility
• Water pollution with industrial, agricultural, sewage
effluents and wastes hazardous for the people, flora
and fauna
• Ineffective resource management
• General decay of basin water management
Fragmentary IBB managementу
Agents of management
MoH
MoI
MEBP
MLSP
CFH
WR
C
Social
and
demog
param
eters
Lake
volu
me
Coastal
territory
Fertil
e
silt
Recre
ation
zone
MEP
Ministry of Agriculture
Water
resour
ces
Air
Irrigat
ed
lands
MIT
МИ
ИТ
CF
Fauna
Flora
Flora
Management objects
Akims of 4 oblasts, Oblast Departments,
Management bodies, Companies
Emer
y
АпЗР
Indust
ry
MC
Ili
delta
MEMP
МЭМР
Hydrotechn
ical
facilities
Transboundary problems
• Unpredictable volumes of water use on the part of
CPR - (inflow to Ili from CPR 8,5-17,7)
• Planned growth of irrigated lands in the CPR
from 400 to 600 thousand hectares – increase of
water use by 2 cubic km \year
• Construction of Kapchagai water reservoir on the
river Tekes
• Plans: to transfer the flow off from the river Ili into
the basins of the rivers Tarim and Karamai
• River pollution with organic chemicals and metals
EU/CAREC Project «Development of integrated
management plan in IBB»
• Is being performed with the financial
support of the European Commission in
partnership with:
- The Ministry of Environment
-Ministry of Economy and Budget Planning,
- Committee on Water resources of the MoA
• Period for the Project development: 20052007
Project Goal: Preservation of ecosystems,
integrated water management and rational nature
use
Objectives:
1. Analysis of international experience in basin
management;
2. Involvement of stakeholders;
3. Planning basin management;
4. Setting up a body of basin management;
5. Drafting international agreement on basin
management;
6. Setting up technical Secretariat to support
basin management
Legal basis for cooperation in IBB
• Agreement on transboundary waters
between RK and CPR, 2001
• Kazakhstan –Kyrgyz Agreements
• 2004 Beijing Declaration on
Hydropower & Sustainable
Development (October 29, 2004)
• Declaration of China and Kazakhstan
on the formation and development of
strategic partnership (04.07.2005)
Project implementation, Objective -5
River-based Agreements
• Project «Agreement on Integrated IB
Basin Management», discussed at the
international meeting 6.03.2007
• Endorsed by the MoI RK 03.07.07
• Submitted to the MOP RK for coordination
with the ministries
Project implementation, objective-4
Setting up a Body on IBB management
A complete set of documents on setting up Basin
Corporation «Balkhash –Alakol» has been
devised
(Legislative support, explanatory notes and
constituent documents)
Project implementation, objective -3
Development of the Basin Management
Plan
• Analysis of the existing and planned programs
and projects at all the levels is being done
(international, public, oblast, sector) and sector
development plans (agriculture, industry, social
sphere, environment, municipal economy)
• Information data base regarding major
components of the Plan (statistic and mapping
material)
Project implementation, object -3
Development of the Basin Management
Plan
• The Strategy of territorial development of the RK as
of 2015
• Program «Ensuring SD of Balkhash – Alakol basin for
2007-2009»
• The national program «Drinking waters»
• The program of developing Almaty oblast for 2008-2010
• State Program «Integrated Management of Water
Resources and Brining up the Efficiency of Water Use in
the RK as of 2025» (project)
• The Programs of System Development for SPNT
RK for 2007-2009
Project implementation, further actions
• Development and coordination of IWRM Plan
• Promotion of international agreement with CPR
and KR on transboundary rivers
• Implementation of state expert examination of
documents for registration of Basin Corporation
«Balkhash –Alakol»
• Setting up technical Secretariat to support the
process of basin management
• Presentation of materials and finalization of the
Project
Thank you, for your attention. I invite you to ask questions.
050043b Almaty, Orbita-1, 40, tel.: +73272785110,
[email protected]
Integrated IBB management Plan
Plan goal:
The lake level is not below 341-342
m.
Under the total volume of the Ili river
flow off (18-20 km3)
The objective of the Plan is to find
additional water resources -4-5 cubic km .
Plan activities:
• effective use of water in economy;
• reduction of losses in the zones of formation and
scattering;
• reduction of losses for evaporation and filtration;
• reduction of losses in river deltas;
• water protection activities;
• involvement of return, waste, collection-drainage and
underground waters,
• other
To implement the plan it is necessary to have
•Effective system of integrated basin management
•Financing (up to 1 bln Euro) – conditions for investors
•Agreement between basin countries
Flow off of the Ili river or:
from CPR - 13, 36 km3 (65%);
In Kazakhstan - 7,24 km3 (35%), 2004
Agreement between basin countries
RK, CPR, KR
Existing capacity to address problems
•Agreement between CPR and RK on strategic partnership
development
• Investment interest on the part of the CPR in the downstream of
Balkhash: fishery, agriculture, ecotourism as a guarantee of the water
release and water quality
• Commitments of CPR regarding MDG, including preservation of
ecosystem
• EU interest in Kazakhstan as a bridge between Europe and Asia,
• Linkage between the interests of Kyrgyzstan to RK investments
and dependence of CPR on the river Tarim
• CAREC support in setting up an International Secretariat
• IFAS experience (setting up WEC, UN involvement, Secretariat)
Political and legal basis
• Address of the President:
- Perfection of development institutions, innovative infrastructure
- Territorial development corporations (social business corporations)
- New forms of partnership of private and public sector
- Development of special economic zones
• EU Proposal as to signing an Agreement with the CPR to address
transboundary problems
• Johannesburg-2002, WSSD: commitments of RK, CPR, EU with regard
to regional cooperation, multilateral agreements, transition to ecosystembased management
•Mountain partnership - 45 countries, 19 inter-state organizations
• Global water partnership, to which China has also joined
• Declaration of China and Kazakhstan on strategic partnership
formation and development 04.07.2005)
• Beijing Declaration on sustainable development (October 29, 2004)
• EU and CAREC project on trying the model of territorial development
based on the IBB example
• Opening up Ecotechnopark (Joint Communiqué of RK and
CPR,11.01.2006, Astana)
Legal and Program documents -1
• Ukase (Decree) of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan
of August 28, 2006, № 167 On the Strategy of Territorial
Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan as of 2015
• Regulation of the Government of the RK № 42 of 16.01.2004г.
«Rules for the Rehabilitation of Water-protective Zones and
Territories».
• Regulation of the Government of the RK of 02.03.2007, №
163 On Endorsement of the Program «Ensuring Sustainable
Development of Balkhash – Alakol Basin for 2007-2009»
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National Program «Drinking Water»
Legal and Program documents -2
• Program «Environmental Protection of RK for 200820010 (draft)
• Regulation of the Government of the RK of 13.10.
2006, N 990 «On Endorsement of the Program of
Development of Specially Protected Territories of the
RK for 2007-2009
• On Approval of the List of Environmental Activities.
Prikaz of the Minister of Environmental Protection of
the RK of 27.09.2005, N 273-p
Plan Directions
• - To decrease the volume of emission and discharge into
the atmosphere, soil and water sources on the part of
industries, utility and agricultural companies;
• Prevention and mitigation of the aftermaths of natural
disasters related to water factors.
• Improvement of living conditions of the population via
resolution of the problems of water supply.
• Conservation of ecosystems of the region, organization
of SPNT, desertification process prevention
• Promotion of economic welfare of the population residing
in the IBB region;
Plan activities -1
 Effective water use in economic activity;
- Reduction of losses in the zones of
formation and dissipation;
- Reduction of losses related to
transportation, evaporation and filtration;
- Reduction of losses in the river deltas;
Plan activities -2
• Rehabilitation and repair of irrigation and
collection-drainage systems on irrigated
territories
• Introduction of water-saving technologies
• Rejection of ineffective irrigational methods
in agriculture for crop irrigation
• Increase of the proportion of collectiondrainage waters, return waters and water
recycling
Component 4. Setting
up a Basin
Management Body
• Development of a portfolio of documents on
setting up IBB management body
• “IBB” Charter
• “IBB” organizational structure
• “IBB” management institutions
• “IBB” governance body
• Authorities
• Partners
• Major development directions
• Investment declaration (memorandum)
• Management form: «social-business corporation»
Drafting an agreement on basin
management development
Component 5.
Development and signing Interstate Agreement
between Kazakhstan, CPR and Kyrgyzstan on
transboundary river management.
The Draft Agreement was discussed at the
International meeting on March 6-7, 2007
Analogues of international agreements
- Regional Agreement on the Alps Protection (7 countries and EU
ЕС 1991)
- Agreement on the River Indus between India and Pakistan and the
WB (WB as a guarantor of the Agreement and Program investor)
- The Carpathians Convention (8 mountain countries, 2003)
- Consortium on Sustainable Development of the Andes ecoregion
(7 countries of Latin America with the participation of business,
NGO, science)
- Administration of the river Tennessee: governments, private sector
(USA)
- the lake Biva: government, private sector, community (Japan)
- Basin management in France: government, municipalities, private
sector
- Regional Agendas -21 (Baltic-21, African Partnership NEPAD,
Mediterranean Agenda-21)
- other
Expected outcomes of the project
implementation -1
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3.
Developed management model for IBB based on the study
of the best examples and models of the management
system for IBB given that their thorough study and research
has been done;
Functioning network and sustainable links with the
interested parties with their involvement to ensure
successful project implementation;
Awareness of the population and availability of accessible
and necessary information regarding the IBB status and
development;
Expected outcomes of the project
implementation -2
4. Proposals regarding objectives, status, authorities,
structure and functions of the Basin Management Body at
the governmental and local levels;
5. Realistic and feasible Plan of IBB development with
clearly defined goals, policy and mechanisms of their
implementation.
6. Draft Agreement on Partnership for basin management
as the legal basis for the future activity and implementation
of the IBB Development Plan.
7. Trained and able to work Secretariat with necessary
technical capacity and working groups for expert and
technical support to the IBB Development Plan.
Mid-term goals
• Approval of the National Program of basin development
• Development and signing a multilateral basin Agreement:
RK, KR, CPR with the EU and UN participation
• Resolution of the problem of water diversion and pollution
in the River ILi with the aim of conservation of the Lake
Balkhash ecosystems
• Attraction of investments and technologies necessary to
resolve social-economic problems of the region
• Making use of the CAREC capacity to support expert
works and working Secretariat
Long-term goals
• Endorsement of the International Program on Basin
Development
• Further attraction of investments and technologies to bring up
competitiveness of the RK
• Enhancement of geopolitical role of the RK in relations
between Europe and Asia
• Introduction of the IBB management model in other
transboundary basins (Aral, Caspian Sea, Irtysh) in the
interests of the RK
• Example for the UN in terms of practical implementation of
the commitments regarding MDGs and Sustainable
Development. Enhancement of the leadership in the region and
at the global level in terms of SD (Summit of the Heads of
States in Astana 2012).
Chart of the Action Plan of
integrated management in Ili-Balkhash basin
The Plan Objective:
The Lake level not less than 341-342
m.
Under the total volume of the Ili River
water flow off (18-20 km3)
The Plan objective is to find additional
water resources -4-5 cubic km.
The Plan activities:
• effective water use in economic activity;
• reduction of losses in the zones of formation and
scattering/dispersion;
• reduction of losses due to evaporation and filtration;
• reduction of losses in the river deltas;
• water protective measures;
• involvement of sewerage, collection-drainage and
underground waters into recycling
• other
To implement the Plan it is necessary to:
•Have an effective system of integrated basin management
•Financing (up to 1 bln Euro) – conditions for investors
•Agreement between the basin countries
Ili River flow off:
From CPR - 13, 36 km3 (65%);
In Kazakhstan - 7,24 km3 (35%), 2004
Agreement between the basin countries
of the RK, CPR, KR