Almost 16,000 people in Kazakhstan have been evacuated in massive flooding that has directed public anger toward officials who have admitted they were unprepared for such a large-scale catastrophe. In the long term, experts say, the country must find ways to direct precious meltwater for use during increasingly drought-struck summer months.
NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM - Once the world’s fourth-largest lake, the Aral Sea has been on Kazakhstan’s national environmental agenda for years. Last week, the Kazakh Ministry of Ecology, Geology, and Natural Resources announced the measures undertaken over the years helped increase the volume of water by 11.5 cubic meters. More about the efforts to revive the lake over the past years and its progress is in the latest analytical article of Kazinform.