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To: Eric who wrote (24812)	4/5/2015 2:16:31 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 49197

Turkmenistan pledges to curb water use . View gallery . Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) (AFP) - The leader of Turkmenistan on Sunday pledged to streamline water use, a huge problem in the isolated desert nation believed to be among the world's top water wasters. Some 80 percent of ex-Soviet Turkmenistan is covered by the Karakum desert, one of the driest places on earth. Addressing Turkmens on the Day of Water, a national holiday, President Gurbangly Berdymukhamedov pledged to curb waste. The government would oversee the "systematic introduction of conservation technologies in the construction of water facilities and systems, the application of best practices and the latest scientific achievements", he was quoted by state media as saying. The post-Soviet states of Central Asia -- which have mostly failed to repair outdated irrigation networks but keep producing water-intensive crops such as cotton -- are among the world's worst water wasters. The scientific weekly Nature said last year that Turkmenistan was the world's top consumer of water per capita. Households in Turkmenistan do not pay for water consumption. While water use was centrally managed under the Soviets, tensions have brewed between states upstream and downstream of the famous Amu and Syr Darya rivers since independence. In 2012, Islam Karimov, the veteran leader of Turkmenistan's neighbour Uzbekistan, warned that disagreements over water sharing could spark war in the region.

To: Eric who wrote (24812)	4/5/2015 2:21:08 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 49197

I agree, but Neven doesn't. PIOMAS April 2015 Another month has passed and so here is the updated Arctic sea ice volume graph as calculated by the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) at the Polar Science Center: With the levelling off levelling off again, 2015 is now firmly at 2010's level and still at least 1000 km3 behind the years after that. The volume max will be reached this month, and I don't expect things to change all that much. So unlike last year, we see some of that rebound lingering through winter, which, - depending on distribution and weather conditions - might make for another recordless melting season. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's see what happens first. neven1.typepad.com