COMPLETION OF THE PROJECT “UCHKURGAN WATERWORKS GATE AUTOMATION”
FINANCED BY SWISS GOVERNMENT
The Project “Uchkurgan Waterworks Gate Automation” financed by Swiss Government has been successfully completed. In last month final inspection was carried out and final trench was implemented.
Total project duration: 01.01.2001 - 30.09.2003.
Budget: 335 000 Swiss francs.
Goal: automation of 25 gates at Uchkurgan Waterworks on Naryn River in north part of Ferghana Valley.
Project executors – BWO «Syrdarya», SIC ICWC, company «Sygma» (the Kyrgyz Republic) under financial support of Swiss Development Cooperation agency (SDC). Works on Uchkurgan Waterworks were fulfilled with using experience of automating structures Chirchik and Pakhtaabad financed by USAID within frameworks of the project “Natural Resources Management”.
Uchkurgan Waterworks plays important role in water distribution over the most part of Ferghana Valley through following main canals: Big Ferghana Canal, Khalkabad, North Ferghana Canal.
Result and effect:
1. Improved control and monitoring providing more exact (in quantity and in time) water distribution over main canals.
2. Improved communication and information exchange between end users (farmers) and Water works managers.
3. Report on trial period (June 2002 – September 2003) prepared by BWO “Syrdarya” and SIC ICWC demonstrates rather satisfactory system performance.
4. Power plant located upstream Uchkurgan Waterworks under peak power generation causes high fluctuations of discharge at Waterworks. These fluctuations can be balanced and smoothed by automated control system with positive economical effect.
MAIN DECISIONS MADE DURING ICID EVENTS
AT MONTPELLIER, FRANCE (SEPTEMBER 2003)
1. Three National Committees of (i) Chad; (ii) Niger and (iii) Mali were admitted to ICID membership.
2. IEC ratified nomination of Mr. M. Gopalakrishnan as Secretary General-Designate, ICID. He will work full time as Secretary General from 1 January 2004.
3. Three new Vice Presidents were elected:
- Dr. Alain Vidal (France)
- Mr. R. Jeyaseelan (India)
- Dr. Victor Dukhovny (Uzbekistan)
4. The following persons were nominated as Deputy Theme Leaders of ICID Strategy Themes:
Knowledge Mr. Larry Stephens (USA)
Systems Dr. Ing. Willem F. Vlotman (The Netherlands)
Basin Dr. Marinus Bos (The Netherlands)
On-Farm Dr. Ferenc Ligetvari (Hungary)
5. New Chairs of ICID Workbodies :
PFC : Mr. Peter S. Lee (UK)
WG-CAFM : Mr. Dick de Bruin (The Netherlands)
WG-DRG : Dr. Sami Bouarfa (France)
WG-CD : Mr. Bruno Molle (France)
WG-YPF : Mr. A.R. Salamat (Iran)
WG-CBTE : Mr. Tom Franks (UK)
6. American Regional Working Group (AMRWG) including North, South and Latin American countries was constituted in place of LARWG.
7. ICID By-law 2.1 was amended. IEC will in future vote to fill up vacancies of President and Vice Presidents.
8. Mr. K.N. Sharma who was recently appointed as Secretary, ICID was congratulated.
9. Best Performing Workbody Award (BPWA) was established. It will be presented at each ICID Congress.
10. New Task Force for Suggesting Effective Mechanisms for Farmers Involvement in ICID Activities was set up under the Chairmanship of Mr. Stephen Mills (Australia).
11. Tenure of ICID Task Forces 1 to 5 was extended to finalize their outputs by 55th IEC in Moscow (2004) before winding up.
12. The Hassan Ismail Memorial International Award was discontinued for future.
13. The Gulhati Memorial International Lecture to be delivered at each ICID Congress, will be revived soon.
14. Volume-II of 18th Congress on CD-ROM was released.
15. Printed volume on History of Irrigation, Drainage and Flood Control Management in Danube Valley was released.
16. Text Delivery Service (TDS) on ICID website was uploaded on new Software based on Protocol Z39.50.
17. Names of Reporters and Panel of Experts for 19th ICID Congress in Beijing (2005) were finalized.
18. The dates of 55th IEC to be held in Russia, Moscow, were re-scheduled from 5-11 September 2004.
19. NC of Mexico has expressed interest to host the 5th Pan American Regional Conference, in Mexico in January 2006.
20. 22nd European Regional Conference to be hosted by ITAL-ICID will be held in Italy in May or November 2007.
RUSSIA IS PURCHASING ELECTRIC POWER FROM KYRGYZSTAN
РАО «ЕЭС Rossii» started supplying electric power from Kyrgyzstan to Russia through Kazakhstan power system. As PAO leadership reports, appropriate contract was signed between «Inter РАО ЕЭС» holding Affiliate Company and power company AO “Power plants of Kyrgyzstan”. Electric power transported to Russia is generated on Toktogul hydropower. “On experts’ assessment total power deliveries amount from Kyrgyzstan in the nearest two and a half months may reach 800 mln kWh” – official report of power holding company said. Import of cheap power of Toktogul hydropower to Russia will promote improvement of ФОРЭМ cost balance. Project implementation, as РАО «ЕЭС» Department on relations with mass media, became possible due to parallel power systems operation of Russia, CIS, and Baltic countries.
Independent newspaper, 19 September 2003.
ABOUT ANDREE POULIN VISIT TO ICWC TRAINING CENTER
On 16 October 2003, Ms Andree Poulin, Senior Program Officer for Central Asia and Caucasus paid an official visit to the ICWC Training Center in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
The ICWC Training Center is a regional institution that provides training workshops, seminars and conferences for all interested Parties and brings together conflicting interests of downstream and upstream States for the needs for irrigated agriculture and energy generation and environmental issues in the Aral Sea Basin. The Training Center is a five-year project with funding provided by the Canadian International Development Agency and being implemented by the McGill University Brace Center for Water Resources Management (Canada) and Mount Royal College (Canada) and the local counterpart, the Scientific Information Center of the ICWC of Central Asia.
Ms Poulin was acquainted with report of training workshops as well as training materials and handouts. The Training Center staff delivered a brief introduction in the form of Power Point Presentation on the past TC activities and its future plans. This also included a database on the TC participants (trainees) and an updated web-site. Dr Umarov P., Director of the Training Center and SIC ICWC Deputy Director, talked about training dissemination strategy for the Aral Sea Basin and the branches of the Training Center in Urgench, Uzbekistan, and Osh, Kyrgyzstan, as well as future plans for opening additional branches in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, and Kyzyl-Orda, Kazakhstan. Dr. Stulina, a Senior Research Fellow of the SANIIRI, and a leading expert in “Climate Change and …” also funded by CIDA, provided an update on project activities and results obtained to date.
Ms Polin raised the following questions and paid a particular interest to the following issues:
- Training Center’s becoming self-sufficient after the CIDA funding ends in 2005;
- Criteria for participants’ selection;
- Participation of women in the training activities;
- Impacts of the workshop minutes and recommendations in improving region-wide water management and the mechanism for their dissemination, etc.
On the first item, she recommended that the Training Center should continue delivering the water and related training activities in the long run, focus rather on water related courses than commercial courses. In order to avoid interruptions of the training workshops after the funding will end, she suggested to consider starting negotiations with and proposing to the other international organizations such as the UN system organizations and its specialized agencies, international financial institutions and international professional institutions as well as donor countries to provide financial assistance for the Training Center so that it continues to provide quality training and serve as a Place of Excellency to achieve environmentally sustainable water management in the Aral Sea Basin.
ABOUT «IWRM-FERGHANA» PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION
Working meeting of executors’ group on WUA activity was held on October 20, 2003 in Osh. Main considered issue – revival and organization of constructing gauging stations in post-vegetation period in WUA “Zhapalak”. Schedule of gauging stations’ construction was prepared in total of 93 units including 12 – on collector-drainage network as well as: October- 10, November – 25, December – 15, January – 10, February – 20, March – 23. The brigade was organized of 6 WUA workers to fulfil works.
WUA “Japalak” Director Zh. Kamilov noted that construction schedule will be kept provided that proper building materials are supplied.
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