Escalating rhetoric over dams in central Asia

Tensions escalate over two proposed dams in central Asia: Kambarata-1 in Kyrgyzstan and the Rogun Dam in Tajikistan. These dams could affect water supplies in the downstream nations of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan. Uzbekistan’s president, Islam Karimov, says the dams could cause “not just serious confrontation, but even wars.”

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