On June 3, the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation announced that to date, the country’s reservoirs have collected 75 billion cubic meters of water, 15 billion cubic meters more than last year. Over 12 billion cubic meters of the accumulated water is flood water.
The statement updates statistics cited in an earlier report by Times CA
In total, Kazakhstan’s reservoirs can hold 89 billion cubic meters of water.
Last year the country’s agricultural sector used 14 billion cubic meters of water, and 24.4 billion cubic meters of water were used by other sectors across the country.
Welcoming the news, representative of the ministry Moldir Abdualieva said, “The collection of flood water continues. Since the beginning of the flood situation, 3.3 billion cubic meters of water have been sent to Lake Balkhash, and about 6 billion cubic meters of water have been directed to the Caspian Sea”
