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Battered Waters

Anush Babajanyan

The collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s left the countries of Central Asia facing serious environmental challenges and a lack of coordination over shared water resources. In response to the region’s growing water crisis, and to visualise the realities of water management, I travelled to four Central Asian countries. Upstream Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan control the flow of the region’s two major rivers, which sustain downstream Uzbekistan and water-scarce Kazakhstan.

Today, around 67 million people live in this landlocked region—roughly the size of Europe—relying on its rivers and glaciers as their primary sources of water. At the same time, climate change is intensifying pressures across all four nations, accelerating environmental degradation and uncertainty.

This project tells the story of Central Asia’s environmental crisis through its landscapes and its people, revealing the visible consequences of climate change already unfolding in this often-overlooked region.


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POS AB 672 8 Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan BorderPOS AB 672 8
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POS AB 672 10Aral SeaPOS AB 672 10
POS AB 672 11MirnyPOS AB 672 11
POS AB 672 12Local TitanicPOS AB 672 12
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POS AB 672 15ZeravshanPOS AB 672 15
POS AB 672 16TastubekPOS AB 672 16
POS AB 672 17KhujandPOS AB 672 17
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POS AB 672 19Rogun Dam VisitorsPOS AB 672 19
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POS AB 672 21Khojai A’loPOS AB 672 21
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