UAA/UHRP Events Update
19-03-05, 12:31
The Water Crisis in Xinjiang
Dr. Stanley Toops
Associate Professor of Geography and International Studies Miami University of Ohio
Dr. S. Frederick Starr
Chairman, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
MONDAY, March 28, 2005, 12-2 PM
1619 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Rome Auditorium Light lunch will be served at noon.
Central Asian agriculture and life can only go on in the presence of water, and has been overstressed by the growth of population and by the extensive and inefficient communist style of irrigation by vast Pharaonic projects. As a result, there is pressure of water scarcity and salinization throughout Central Asia. This growing problem is damaging the environment and public health, and threatens hostility between the upstream and downstream countries.
In
Xinjiang, for example, the diversion of the upper Irtysh river has caused difficulties between China and Kazakhstan. Xinjiang is facing a serious water problem, which Stanley Toops will explain using Turpan Oasis as a case study.
Dr. Toops, a geographer, is one of the most knowledgable experts on
Xinjiang, and contributed a chapter to Central Asia-Caucasus Institute's recent volume, "Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland". Dr. S. Frederick Starr, editor of that volume, is Chairman of the Institute and has published extensively on Central Asian affairs.
To RSVP please send an email with your name and affiliation to caci2@mail.jhuwash.jhu.edu or call (202) 663-7721.
Dr. Stanley Toops
Associate Professor of Geography and International Studies Miami University of Ohio
Dr. S. Frederick Starr
Chairman, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
MONDAY, March 28, 2005, 12-2 PM
1619 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Rome Auditorium Light lunch will be served at noon.
Central Asian agriculture and life can only go on in the presence of water, and has been overstressed by the growth of population and by the extensive and inefficient communist style of irrigation by vast Pharaonic projects. As a result, there is pressure of water scarcity and salinization throughout Central Asia. This growing problem is damaging the environment and public health, and threatens hostility between the upstream and downstream countries.
In
Xinjiang, for example, the diversion of the upper Irtysh river has caused difficulties between China and Kazakhstan. Xinjiang is facing a serious water problem, which Stanley Toops will explain using Turpan Oasis as a case study.
Dr. Toops, a geographer, is one of the most knowledgable experts on
Xinjiang, and contributed a chapter to Central Asia-Caucasus Institute's recent volume, "Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland". Dr. S. Frederick Starr, editor of that volume, is Chairman of the Institute and has published extensively on Central Asian affairs.
To RSVP please send an email with your name and affiliation to caci2@mail.jhuwash.jhu.edu or call (202) 663-7721.