Abstract:
This paper proposes a solution to the environmental problems
in the Republic of Kazakhstan associated with the provision of the
population with quality water. The authors propose to use only clear
scientific forecasts, practical ecological scenarios, as well as the
methodology of the National Action Plan for Environmental Protection and
Sustainable Development. This will allow to solve the issues of
desertification, salinization, water scarcity, decline in irrigation,
agriculture, and the fishing industry in the future. The purpose of the article
is to reveal the reasons for the insufficiency and unevenness in the
provision of water resources in the republic. In the study the principle of
historicism and systems analysis is used. The results of the research
confirm and indicate that the growth of the economic potential in industry
and the transition to market mechanisms for the development of the
economy gave rise to a reduction in reserves of clean water, shallowing of
mountain and transboundary rivers, the decrease in fish populations, and
the emergence of a real threat of a water ecological crisis in the republic.
The obtained theoretical results of the study can be applied when
discussing and significantly improving the environmental issues of water
resources in the country.
