In Uzbekistan, due to the introduction of water-saving technologies on an area of ​​more than 400 thousand hectares, 2 billion cubic meters of water were saved in six months.

“At the 55th plenary session of the Senate, information was heard from the Ministry of Water Management on the implementation of measures for the rational and efficient use of water resources, improvement of management mechanisms and the legislative framework in this area,” the Senate website says.

To improve the efficiency of water resource use, Smart Water management systems have been implemented at 11,446 water management facilities, Diver devices have been installed at 6,953 facilities, and online control systems have been installed at 1,709 pumping stations. In addition, 67 large water management facilities have been fully automated.

Thanks to the efforts of clusters and farms, 10,540 km of internal irrigation networks were concreted and 34,885 km of canals, ditches and chutes were cleared.

Earlier, Kun.uz wrote that Uzbekistan will send 500 million cubic meters of water to Kazakhstan before the end of the irrigation season.