|
|
 |
 |
|
|
Tourism |
|
|
|
Amu Bukhara Canal and Kuyumazar Pumping Station
|
|
<<
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
>>
|
|
In the 1960s the Amu-Karakul forced-flow canal was built, along with the first section of the Amu-Bukhara canal 194 kilometers long and with a discharge of 124 cubic meters per second with two huge pumping stations - the Khamza-l and Kuyumazar, lifting water to a total height of 68 meters. This made it possible to switch 72,000 hectares of already irrigated lands from supply by the Zeravshan to supply by the Amu Darya, to guarantee their water supply, as well as to reclaim 25,000 hectares of virgin lands and water 320,000 hectares of pastures.
The efforts to direct the waters of the Amu Darya into the lands of the Zeravshan oases continued in 1970. Construction of the second section of the Amu-Bukhara canal started, and this made it possible to switch another 75,000 hectares of land now irrigated by the Zeravshan to water supplied from the Amu Darya, to fully guarantee the water supply of some 400,000 hectares of lands in the Zeravshan valley and reclaim more than 15,000 hectares of virgin lands. All the above undertakings made it possible to grow additionally more than 200,000 tons of raw cotton a year.
Kuyamazar Pumping Station on the Amu Bukhara Canal
Kuyamazar
Pumping Station |
Kuyamazar
Pumping Station |
Kuyamazar
Pumping Station |
The Amu Bukhara Canal
|
<<
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
>>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
