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Under assistance of UNDP project “Aral Sea Basin Development Program” the Annotated Bibliographical Guide of literature on the Aral Sea Basin problems was issued.

It includes following sections:

• general information about the Aral sea basin
• water and land resources use
• environmental problems of the Aral sea basin and their solution
• social-economic problems
• activities of international organizations and international collaboration

Under FAO financial support two FAO publications have been translated into Russian: No. 24 “Crop water consumption”, No. 46 “CROPWAT: A computer program for irrigation planning and management” and No. 56 “Crop evapotranspiration”.

Under IWMI sponsorship collection “Ways of Water Conservation” is issued including outcomes from GEF sub-component A-2 “Water resources and environment management in the Aral sea basin” and WUFMAS sub-project.

Documents to GWP meeting in Bishkek (September 2001) have been prepared and issued.

Documents of the project INTAS/RFbr and NATO project “Assessment of social-economic consequences of ecologic disaster — Aral Sea desiccation” have been prepared and issued.

For measures dedicated to ICWC 10-years Anniversary (Almaty, February 2002) have been prepared and issued:

• Collection of ICWC Decision: 1992-2002;
• SIC ICWC Scientific Collections, Selected Works;
• Collection of Report for Jubilee Conference Plenary Session;
• Materials of the GWP Conference;

For Training Center ICWC have been prepared and issued:

• Collections of Papers for Courses:
  • “Integrated Water Resources Management” (vol. 1 and 2);
  • “International and national water law and policy”
  • “Advanced irrigated agriculture in Central Asia”
• Support Materials for TC ICWC (totally 5 issues have been made)

Proceedings for the workshop of ICWC and UN ESCAP on strategic planning and sustainable management of water resources in Central Asia (Cholpon-Ata, August 27-30, 2002), in 2 volumess

Proceedings of the regional consultation workshop “Regional Cooperation in Shared Water Resources in Central Asia: Past Experience and Future Challenges”
(Almaty, September 26-28, 2002), on Russian and English

The results of case study of project “Dialogue on Water and Climate: Aral Sea Basin Case Study” have been published by SIC ICWC as a collection and as a web site http://dialogue.icwc-aral.uz.