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Akylbek Kurishbaev1, Raushan Amanzholova2, Dinara Adenova3, Janay Sagin*4, Diana Burlibayeva5, Dani Sarsekova6, Kuantar Alikhanov7, Abay Serikkanov8, Rebecca King9
1Kazakh National Agrarian Research University, Abay Avenue 8, Almaty, 050010, Kazakhstan
Email: rector@kaznaru.edu.kz | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0568-5964
2Kazakh-British Technical University, Tole Bi Street 59, Almaty 050000, Kazakhstan
Email: r_amanzholova@kbtu.kz | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9129-1074
3Institute of Hydrogeology, Satbayev University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Email: d.adenova@satbayev.university | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7973-811X
4Kazakh-British Technical University, Tole Bi Street 59, Almaty 050000, Kazakhstan
Email: j.sagin@kbtu.kz | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0386-888X
5Institute of Geography and Water Security, Pushkin St 99, Almaty, 050010, Kazakhstan
Email: diana.burlibayeva@yandex.kz | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2385-8611
6Kazakh National Agrarian Research University, Abay Avenue 8, Almaty, 050010, Kazakhstan
Email: sarsekova.dani@kaznaru.edu.kz | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0537-4936
7National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Shevchenko S., Almaty, 050010, Kazakhstan.
Email: k.alikhanov.nas@gmail.com | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9514-7678
8National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Shevchenko St., Almaty, 050010, Kazakhstan.
Email: a.serikkanov.nas@gmail.com | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6817-9586
9Kazakh-British Technical University, Tole Bi Street 59, Almaty 050000, Kazakhstan
Email: r.king@kbtu.kz | ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-9098-9411
Grassroots Journal of Natural Resources, 7(1): 99-122. Doi: https://doi.org/10.33002/nr2581.6853.070106
Received: 11 January 2024
Reviewed: 26 February 2024
Provisionally Accepted: 02 March 2024
Revised: 14 March 2024
Finally Accepted: 20 March 2024
Published: 15 April 2024
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Central Asia is among the most heavily affected regions worldwide by climate change and water shortages. Impacts include changes in precipitation patterns, more frequent temperature extremes and increased aridity causing a negative impact on agricultural production, food availability, and environmental security. To combat this threat, it is important to enhance information literacy among all water users. This can be done through awareness campaigns, blended learning by providing the proper Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) programs and utilizing all available facilities. This will address relevant issues, such as miscommunication, complexities of transboundary water sharing issues, overexploitation of water resources, and poor flood-drought mitigation techniques. Proper and user-friendly lifelong blended learning for scientific information dissemination focusing water issues can provide stronger support to increase awareness among water users and decision policy makers. Worldwide, especially in North America and Australia, information literacy campaigns have proven successful. This strategy can be replicated in the Mountainous Kyrgyz-Kazakh Chu-Talas transboundary river basin. The issues concerning the Mountainous Kyrgyz-Kazakh Chu-Talas transboundary river basin is elaborated and compared with Australian, Canadian, and US river basin management programs. The foresight analysis is presented, as to what would be a rationale to improve water resources more sustainably in Central Asia. Methodologies, programs, technologies, communities-based river basin committees, snow-water collection with agroforestry, and basin-based water market opportunities were analyzed to assess potential applications in Central Asia region.
Sustainability; Central Asia; Foresight; Water resources; River basin
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