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Low Water Levels Reduces Kyrgyzstan Power Export BISHKEK (Caspionet) — The CA-NEWS has announced that due to the low water level in 2012, Kyrgyzstan will export to Kazakhstan 1 billion kWh less electricity. As for June 30th, 2012 the water volume in the Toktogul Reservoir amounted to 17 billion cubic meters, which is 2.2 billion cubic meters less than last year, when the volume was 19.2 billion cubic meters. As of June 30th, the volume of electricity exports totaled 877 million kWh or 59% of the same period in 2011, including the export of 645 million kW to Kazakhstan. Today, the ―Electric stations‖ state-run company signed a contract with 7 Kazakhstan companies for the sale of electricity at a price of 2.8 cents per 1 kWh. ―Low Water Levels Reduces Kyrgyzstan Power Export‖, 02/08/2012, online at: http://www.ooskanews.com/daily-waterbriefing/low-water-levels-reduces-kyrgyzstan-power-export_23691 BACK TO TOP Page 89
Poor Water Quality Water Leads to Hepatitis Outbreaks in Kyrgyzstan BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Between 8,000 and 14,000 children in Kyrgyzstan, which has a total population of 5.6 million people, contract hepatitis A every year due to bad quality drinking water, the Health Ministry announced. Marking World Hepatitis Day on July 28, the ministry said most of those sickened by hepatitis A in the country are children under the age of 14. ―The main reason [for contracting hepatitis A] is drinking water of bad quality,‖ it said. ―Only 62.4 percent of the rural population is provided with water from centralized water supply systems in the Osh province, 56.1 percent in the Jalal-Abad province and about 50 percent in the Batken province.‖ The mayoral office of the Kyrgyz capital reported that the incidence of hepatitis A in Bishkek increased by 84.7 percent in the first four months of this year, in comparison to the same period last year. Every year, more than 1,000 cases of hepatitis A are recorded in the capital. Of those who contracted hepatitis A in Bishkek in the first four months of 2012, 72.5 percent were under 15, according to the mayor‘s office. Bishkek Mayor Isa Omurkulov told residents of the capital‘s Rukhiy-Muras district in late July that the whole district would be supplied with safe drinking water before the end of this year, with $338,000 USD spent to build new pipelines. A water intake facility in the district was rehabilitated in 2010, which allowed the water utility to provide about half the district with safe drinking water. A pumping station and a water intake facility worth $159,000 USD will be completed in Rukhiy-Muras soon, Omurkulov said. Meanwhile, the number of children in Djide Village in the Ferghana Valley in southern Kyrgyzstan and nearby areas who contract hepatitis due to lack of safe drinking water has increased since 2009, when local authorities dammed the Toguz Bulak canal upstream to secure access to irrigation water throughout the summer, EurasiaNet.org reported. The resulting reservoir was turned into a swimming pool, forcing downstream villagers to drink contaminated water from the canal. ―Poor Water Quality Water Leads to Hepatitis Outbreaks in Kyrgyzstan‖, 03/08/2012, online at: http://www.ooskanews.com/daily-water-briefing/poor-water-quality-water-leads-hepatitis-outbreaks-kyrgyzstan_23704 BACK TO TOP Page 90
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