Irrigation in the Ili River Basin of Central Asia: From Ditches to Dams and Diversion

Central Asia’s Ili River is fed by mountain streams that flow down into an isolated and arid basin that today is shared by Kazakhstan and China. Agriculture in the basin is dependent upon irrigation, which was practiced as long ago as the Iron Age, when early pastoralists constructed ditch...

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Main Authors: Steven G. Pueppke, Qingling Zhang, Sabir T. Nurtazin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-11-01
Series:Water
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/10/11/1650

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