Agreement between the Republic of Kazakhstan , the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Republic of Tajikistan and Turkmenistan on cooperation in the field of joint water resources management and conservation of interstate sources

The Parties have agreed as follows: 1) Recognizing the community and unity of the region’s water resources, the Parties have equal rights for their use and responsibility for ensuring their rational use and protection. 2) Each of the Parties to this Agreement is obliged to prevent actions on its territory which can infringe on the interests of the other Parties and cause damage to them, lead to deviation from agreed values of water discharges and pollution of water sources. 3) The Parties are obliged to carry out joint works for solving ecological problems, related with the Aral Sea desiccation, and establish sanitary water discharge volumes for each year on the basis of water availability of interstate sources. During extremely dry years a special separate decision shall be taken on the problems of water supply to the regions of acute water deficiency.