Uzbek farmers waste a huge amount of water, up to 90 per cent according to some sources, on wasteful irrigation and growing of water thirsty cotton cultivars. This is the main cause of the Aral Sea disappearing. If they sort that out, the effect of a dam on a tributary won't be important
It's not the farmers. When the old Soviet Union built canals on the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers they didn't line the canals with concrete, they lined it with dirt. Similar to what Afghanistan is doing with its Qush Tepe canal. This allows the majority of the water to simply leach away, and not enough water reaches the Aral Sea and so the sea has lost over 90% of its reservoir causing one of the worst ecological disasters in human history. And the sad this the Soviets KNEW that the Aral Sea was going to disappear by the 1960's or so, and they did it anyways. To make matters worse is they forced the Central Asian countries to plant cotton with the water from the canals and cotton is a very water intensive crop.
I don't understand the argument that the dam disrupts water flow downstream of the dam. True, it does so while its basin is being fillled (an effect that can be easily minimized by lowering the filling rate). But once its basin is filled, a dam can regulate downstream flow such that extremes of maximum and minimum flow are avoided. If managed correctly it will provide a constant flow throughout the year. Something that could be of great benefit to downstream users of water. In winter water flow is reduced because most precip falls as snow. The water level in the basin can then be gradually lowered to provide water for downstream users. Once the snow melts in spring and summer the basin can be refilled by excess runoff which can later be released during the summer and autumn months. Downstream users should be consulted regarding their water needs and a compromises must be found. But overall such a dam has the potential to provide important benefits also to downstream users. Switzerland has a plethora of all sorts of dams, some of them quite big and has always found ways to satisfiy the needs of all users of water.
I doubt they'll be using any of the impounded water to divert for agriculture, which is one of the usual problems with building massive dam projects. The Uzbeks might want large amounts in spring for growing season, and less after that, but that's a normal kind of thing to negotiate.
chinese dams were supposed to regulate too... but ccp officials make more money the higher the level of water (generates more energy) and it ends up with the dams being filled during droughts and only released when it's at the max, aka when the rivers are alredy overflowing and so they do the opposite of regulating flows
By keeping in mind the 'Aral sea' disastrous plans and natural impact, both countries must amicably solove this problem. Any gridy planned to cause another to suffer is self disastrous.
However, in 2018 Uzbekistan dropped its opposition to the Rogun Dam. "Go ahead and build it, but we hold to certain guarantees in accordance with these conventions that have been signed by you," PS - Appreciate the interesting video on dam; however, video didn’t need drama to get my attention PS2 - building of the Qosh Tepa water diversion canal on the Amu Darya River by Afghanistan’s Taliban government seems to be more of a risk to Central Asia countries and worth an in-depth video
This soinds similar to the argument between Ethiopia and Egypt of the damming of the Blue Nile. That turned out just fine despite Egypt literally almost declaring war. So, imo, if the main tributary to the Nile can be dammed without issue, then the Uzbeks just need to chill. At most they would need to discuss a resevoir filling schedule that would allow for enough down flow during filling of the lake so as to not intereupt Uzbek agricultural season.
I wanted to make this comment. The similarities are too weird. The GERD Ethiopia is about to finish is constructed by Salini too. It's almost like this company consulted Tajikistan and Ethiopia to build these controversial dams. Egypt is militarily encircling Ethiopia with the go ahead of the west just to arm twist Ethiopia into agreeing to Egyptian terms about the amount of water to be released from the reservoir of the dam. Trump in 2019/20 said that Egypt will blow the dam. And because the west refused to lend Ethiopia the capital for the construction of the dam it was forced to sell bonds to its citizens just like Tajikistan. It's amazing how stronger riparian states want to stomp down their weaker neighbor's attempt to get out of poverty.
@Lost_itt If all the water is used for generation of electricity and nothing consumed, then there is no problem to down-stream (lower riparian) regions as every drop of water flows down, with a lesser velocity and that shouldn't be a problem (in fact this is the most effective way of flood-control downstream).
When the old Soviet Union built canals on the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers they didn't line the canals with concrete, they lined it with dirt. Similar to what Afghanistan is doing with its Qush Tepe canal. This allows the majority of the water to simply leach away, and not enough water reaches the Aral Sea and so the sea has lost over 90% of its reservoir causing one of the worst ecological disasters in human history. And the sad this the Soviets KNEW that the Aral Sea was going to disappear by the 1960's or so, and they did it anyways. To make matters worse is they forced the Central Asian countries to plant cotton with the water from the canals and cotton is a very water intensive crop.
You seems to have little to no idea about security concerns..it's not a secret these corrupt countries are famous for poorly built dams that collapsed, search Sardoba dam in uzbekistan or newly dug river in Afghanistan, this is just one factor among many other, uzbekistan has real concerns
However a significant portion of the water in that reservoir is very likely going to be diverted (in Tajikistan) for irrigation use. THAT water won't be continuing downstream to the Amu Darya.
@@TH-camrJames92610the Rughun Dam is being constructed by an Italian company called “Webuild”. There’s no doubt that they build good dams all over the world
Absolutely right. There is always an issue with evaporation but that is not a problem here and such evaporation as does arise here will be carried by prevailing winds straight into the faces of surrounding mountain wall and the rising air forced to dump its' moisture to run straight back into the streams that feed the lake. The same applies to water diverted for irrigation, Plants consume the water which is then transpirated into the atmosphere and then the prevailing winds will carry it straight into the face of the mountains and the water returning to the Amu Darya one way or another. As for starving the Aral Sea. This is complete nonsense. That damage was set in motion in the 1950s with the building of the Karakum Canal which has absolutely NOTHING to do with the Tadjiks and everything to do with Uzbek and Turkmen politicians of the Stalinist variety most of them grateful, that with Khrushchev rooting out Stalinists, to have woken in the morning without the MVD later KGB having banged on the door overnight.
Thank you for video, from Tajikistan. PS: The 3th aggregate have work this year 2025. Over 50% of constructors was finished, and it is really ecological energy for electro car, metro and factories
Well done, make your country's energy supply and demands as independent of other countries as possible. We live in very hard times now and more to come I guess.
Half of your citizens fled to Russia, No industrial aspect of the country, There is Russian base to make sure you still kiss the moscovite ring, Totalitarian corrupt president surrounded by (kulobi) region people. Who is jealous of you now tell me please😊
That civil war in Tajikistan completely eluded my attention. Ordinarily I keep close track of foreign conflicts, so the media must not have covered it very well. But how could a tributary in Uzbekistan be diverted to the dammed river in Tajikistan? The Tajikis would have to enter the Uzbeki landscape to do that. It's illogical, or poorly explained.
Umm he explained it, quite well actually. The dam is upstream from the Darya and he explains how it would potentially reduce water going into the Darya.
What is the GDP of Tajikistan? What will the interest and repayments cost? Would two or three smaller dams not have been a cheaper if less spectacular option?
A quibble with your wording on the relationship between the two rivers. You called the Amu Darya a "tributary" river of the Vakhsh. A "Tributary" river flows into (pays tribute to) the river system downstream of it. For example in the USA, the Kanawha river in West Virginia is "tributary" to the Ohio river which in turn is a tributary of the Mississippi river.
I remember something similar happening in jéw-srail, where dudes upstream decided to dam the Iordan river, which would starve the jéws downstream of water for irrigation of their orange orchards. That time it all resolved peacefully, they got PERSUADED out of it by SUGGESTIONS of the isr4il's docile golem, United States. Would be fun to see how this conflict would resolve, because, as far as i know, USA hadn't backed any of the sides (yet).
The similarities are too weird. The GERD Ethiopia is about to finish is constructed by Salini too. It's almost like this company consulted Tajikistan and Ethiopia to build these controversial dams. Egypt is militarily encircling Ethiopia with the go ahead of the west just to arm twist Ethiopia into agreeing to Egyptian terms about the amount of water to be released from the reservoir of the dam. Trump in 2019/20 said that Egypt will blow the dam. And because the west refused to lend Ethiopia the capital for the construction of the dam it was forced to sell bonds to its citizens just like Tajikistan. It's amazing how stronger riparian states want to stomp down their weaker neighbor's attempt to get out of poverty.
It makes far more sense to install 100%tooftop solar on all fotner foviet republics in central adya and s suitably DC network for power transfer and eventually storage using sodium ion batteries?
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Uzbek farmers waste a huge amount of water, up to 90 per cent according to some sources, on wasteful irrigation and growing of water thirsty cotton cultivars. This is the main cause of the Aral Sea disappearing. If they sort that out, the effect of a dam on a tributary won't be important
True people water plants in the middle of the day heat plus Uzbekistan is using one of thr most water thirst cotton species so
Now it is not planting cotton as much as Tajikitan.
It's not the farmers. When the old Soviet Union built canals on the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers they didn't line the canals with concrete, they lined it with dirt. Similar to what Afghanistan is doing with its Qush Tepe canal. This allows the majority of the water to simply leach away, and not enough water reaches the Aral Sea and so the sea has lost over 90% of its reservoir causing one of the worst ecological disasters in human history. And the sad this the Soviets KNEW that the Aral Sea was going to disappear by the 1960's or so, and they did it anyways. To make matters worse is they forced the Central Asian countries to plant cotton with the water from the canals and cotton is a very water intensive crop.
I don't understand the argument that the dam disrupts water flow downstream of the dam. True, it does so while its basin is being fillled (an effect that can be easily minimized by lowering the filling rate). But once its basin is filled, a dam can regulate downstream flow such that extremes of maximum and minimum flow are avoided. If managed correctly it will provide a constant flow throughout the year. Something that could be of great benefit to downstream users of water. In winter water flow is reduced because most precip falls as snow. The water level in the basin can then be gradually lowered to provide water for downstream users. Once the snow melts in spring and summer the basin can be refilled by excess runoff which can later be released during the summer and autumn months. Downstream users should be consulted regarding their water needs and a compromises must be found. But overall such a dam has the potential to provide important benefits also to downstream users. Switzerland has a plethora of all sorts of dams, some of them quite big and has always found ways to satisfiy the needs of all users of water.
I doubt they'll be using any of the impounded water to divert for agriculture, which is one of the usual problems with building massive dam projects. The Uzbeks might want large amounts in spring for growing season, and less after that, but that's a normal kind of thing to negotiate.
Problem is that it can also be used to do the opposite to downstream users.
chinese dams were supposed to regulate too... but ccp officials make more money the higher the level of water (generates more energy) and it ends up with the dams being filled during droughts and only released when it's at the max, aka when the rivers are alredy overflowing and so they do the opposite of regulating flows
lmao so naive
It is hard to find info on past studies but dams increase water loss through evaporation and underground infiltration.
I hope this dam is built to withstand earthquakes.
Tajikistan had a magnitude 7.5 quake in 1949.
By keeping in mind the 'Aral sea' disastrous plans and natural impact, both countries must amicably solove this problem.
Any gridy planned to cause another to suffer is self disastrous.
However, in 2018 Uzbekistan dropped its opposition to the Rogun Dam. "Go ahead and build it, but we hold to certain guarantees in accordance with these conventions that have been signed by you,"
PS - Appreciate the interesting video on dam; however, video didn’t need drama to get my attention
PS2 - building of the Qosh Tepa water diversion canal on the Amu Darya River by Afghanistan’s Taliban government seems to be more of a risk to Central Asia countries and worth an in-depth video
This soinds similar to the argument between Ethiopia and Egypt of the damming of the Blue Nile. That turned out just fine despite Egypt literally almost declaring war. So, imo, if the main tributary to the Nile can be dammed without issue, then the Uzbeks just need to chill. At most they would need to discuss a resevoir filling schedule that would allow for enough down flow during filling of the lake so as to not intereupt Uzbek agricultural season.
I wanted to make this comment. The similarities are too weird. The GERD Ethiopia is about to finish is constructed by Salini too. It's almost like this company consulted Tajikistan and Ethiopia to build these controversial dams. Egypt is militarily encircling Ethiopia with the go ahead of the west just to arm twist Ethiopia into agreeing to Egyptian terms about the amount of water to be released from the reservoir of the dam. Trump in 2019/20 said that Egypt will blow the dam. And because the west refused to lend Ethiopia the capital for the construction of the dam it was forced to sell bonds to its citizens just like Tajikistan. It's amazing how stronger riparian states want to stomp down their weaker neighbor's attempt to get out of poverty.
@Lost_itt
If all the water is used for generation of electricity and nothing consumed, then there is no problem to down-stream (lower riparian) regions as every drop of water flows down, with a lesser velocity and that shouldn't be a problem (in fact this is the most effective way of flood-control downstream).
When the old Soviet Union built canals on the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers they didn't line the canals with concrete, they lined it with dirt. Similar to what Afghanistan is doing with its Qush Tepe canal. This allows the majority of the water to simply leach away, and not enough water reaches the Aral Sea and so the sea has lost over 90% of its reservoir causing one of the worst ecological disasters in human history. And the sad this the Soviets KNEW that the Aral Sea was going to disappear by the 1960's or so, and they did it anyways. To make matters worse is they forced the Central Asian countries to plant cotton with the water from the canals and cotton is a very water intensive crop.
@@GenXerReacts Thank you for the "info"!
Uzbekis need to realise that a hydroelectric dam has to release its waters to generate power!
You seems to have little to no idea about security concerns..it's not a secret these corrupt countries are famous for poorly built dams that collapsed, search Sardoba dam in uzbekistan or newly dug river in Afghanistan, this is just one factor among many other, uzbekistan has real concerns
However a significant portion of the water in that reservoir is very likely going to be diverted (in Tajikistan) for irrigation use. THAT water won't be continuing downstream to the Amu Darya.
@@TH-camrJames92610the Rughun Dam is being constructed by an Italian company called “Webuild”. There’s no doubt that they build good dams all over the world
Absolutely right. There is always an issue with evaporation but that is not a problem here and such evaporation as does arise here will be carried by prevailing winds straight into the faces of surrounding mountain wall and the rising air forced to dump its' moisture to run straight back into the streams that feed the lake. The same applies to water diverted for irrigation, Plants consume the water which is then transpirated into the atmosphere and then the prevailing winds will carry it straight into the face of the mountains and the water returning to the Amu Darya one way or another.
As for starving the Aral Sea. This is complete nonsense. That damage was set in motion in the 1950s with the building of the Karakum Canal which has absolutely NOTHING to do with the Tadjiks and everything to do with Uzbek and Turkmen politicians of the Stalinist variety most of them grateful, that with Khrushchev rooting out Stalinists, to have woken in the morning without the MVD later KGB having banged on the door overnight.
@@terryhoath1983An irrigation / evaporation / wind / rainfall cycle that feeds the lake in a closed cycle above the dam is of little help downstream.
Thank you for video, from Tajikistan.
PS: The 3th aggregate have work this year 2025. Over 50% of constructors was finished, and it is really ecological energy for electro car, metro and factories
Hello from Uzbekistan
It would be the highest and beautiful DAM in the world. Bravo Tajikistan 🇹🇯
Uzbekistan: how could you build this dam. Look at what it will do to the Aral sea
Aral sea: bro
Welcome to Tajikistan 🇹🇯 🙌
Good luck with Uzbeks 💪
maybe consider solar energy and not to kill your neighbors with thrust
از ایران، زنده باد تاجیکستان 🇮🇷❤️🇹🇯
Good for them for not accepting foreign money and creating that share program. That's a good independence strategy
But what percentage of the cost was collected?
This is how the euphrates will dry up
Well done, make your country's energy supply and demands as independent of other countries as possible.
We live in very hard times now and more to come I guess.
They are just jealous of Tajikistan
This isn't a high school politics contest.
Both parties must get along and find a mutually beneficial, win-win solution.n
nah win win is for loosers go big or go home is for winner
Yes the uzbek should understand the reality get their gozbak mouth shut…!!!
No one is ever jealous of Tajikistan
Half of your citizens fled to Russia,
No industrial aspect of the country,
There is Russian base to make sure you still kiss the moscovite ring,
Totalitarian corrupt president surrounded by (kulobi) region people.
Who is jealous of you now tell me please😊
Imam Ali Rahman his the king 👑 all tajiks in khorasan 😍
That civil war in Tajikistan completely eluded my attention. Ordinarily I keep close track of foreign conflicts, so the media must not have covered it very well. But how could a tributary in Uzbekistan be diverted to the dammed river in Tajikistan? The Tajikis would have to enter the Uzbeki landscape to do that. It's illogical, or poorly explained.
Umm he explained it, quite well actually. The dam is upstream from the Darya and he explains how it would potentially reduce water going into the Darya.
What is the GDP of Tajikistan? What will the interest and repayments cost? Would two or three smaller dams not have been a cheaper if less spectacular option?
Uzbekistan can build their own dams
A good video marred by narrator's voice.
Very interesting. Thank you
How did you make this video 😮.
Top of dam, the highest piss in the world records
A quibble with your wording on the relationship between the two rivers. You called the Amu Darya a "tributary" river of the Vakhsh. A "Tributary" river flows into (pays tribute to) the river system downstream of it. For example in the USA, the Kanawha river in West Virginia is "tributary" to the Ohio river which in turn is a tributary of the Mississippi river.
Who is building the dam, Russia, China?
I said it in the video: Italians
Италия строит дальний родственники Таджикский народа
Iran and Italy
Make video on Kalabagh dam. Thanks
I remember something similar happening in jéw-srail, where dudes upstream decided to dam the Iordan river, which would starve the jéws downstream of water for irrigation of their orange orchards.
That time it all resolved peacefully, they got PERSUADED out of it by SUGGESTIONS of the isr4il's docile golem, United States. Would be fun to see how this conflict would resolve, because, as far as i know, USA hadn't backed any of the sides (yet).
4:52 -- "a UN broked peace agreement" -- I'm sorry bro what? Is this read by AI?
Everything is AI now. Even stuff you don't think is. And yes, I noticed that as well and thought the same thing
The similarities are too weird. The GERD Ethiopia is about to finish is constructed by Salini too. It's almost like this company consulted Tajikistan and Ethiopia to build these controversial dams. Egypt is militarily encircling Ethiopia with the go ahead of the west just to arm twist Ethiopia into agreeing to Egyptian terms about the amount of water to be released from the reservoir of the dam. Trump in 2019/20 said that Egypt will blow the dam. And because the west refused to lend Ethiopia the capital for the construction of the dam it was forced to sell bonds to its citizens just like Tajikistan. It's amazing how stronger riparian states want to stomp down their weaker neighbor's attempt to get out of poverty.
Dam should modify the flue on nut change volume of water over time.
Love from Pakistan 🇵🇰
why can the closed captioning not be accurate???
There is really no good reason at all to pronounce the last syllables of these two countries' names differently.
They're Tajiks, not "Tajikistanis". "istan" means Land of.
Dam could well be a damning prospect
Reading add on an AI product that can effortlessly duplicate your voice and likeness (I presume), probably not the best marketing at the moment
Not reassuring news for anyone living down river
All you can say is,damn!
Dam!
video lacking hard facts such as installed capacity in MW and production of electricity in TWh...
the Rogun HPS will create 3600 Megawatt of green electricity.
It makes far more sense to install 100%tooftop solar on all fotner foviet republics in central adya and s suitably DC network for power transfer and eventually storage using sodium ion batteries?
Totalt wrong. I visited the Nurek hydropower plan during the 80'. The russians DID build it.
this is Rogun hydropower station not Norak HPS , and not only russian was build Norak but USSR with all nations even Tajiks.
Made by hand of iran and italy
AI content ruins TH-cam.
Pretty bleak and fucked up is that AI ad. Wtf. No one should be AI generating educational content.
Why fut pla buy ☕🎉 ya sau saal ki thi
do you really need to destroy the entire environment with a dam dam? ridiculous.
👋 AI 🤮
No AI here...
@@Looking4En still fu!
Really? Where are they going to get the money from? You need money, dudes. No money, no honey, remember?
Damn Tajikistan.
Uzbekistan belong to Tajikistan….. most of the big cities are tajiks cities in Uzbekistan…. It is up to Tajikistan give water to them or not….!!!