Kazakhstan Turns to U.S. Water Experts as Scarcity Threat Looms

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Kazakhstan is turning to a US government agency for help on water conservation. Experts from the Kazakh water-management agency Kazvodhoz held talks recently with representatives of the US Bureau of Reclamation on ways to reduce water use in the agricultural sector, the Kazakh news outlet InBusiness.kz reported. The US Embassy in Astana facilitated the discussions. "The parties paid particular attention to the implementation of digital water metering and telemetry systems within irrigation networks," Kazakhstan’s Ministry of…