Done
by: Zenfira Djafarova
The international community long ago recognized the status and
inviolability of a human being's rights not only for life, but also for the
normal environmental conditions that are necessary for an adequate and healthy
way of living.
And in my opinion the problems of ecological safety and environmental
protection deserve special attention.
This problem has become more acute in recent years. As a result of the
chaotic transition of some of the CIS countries to a market economy, and the
loss of management and control of the overuse of natural and raw material
resources, they began to be plundered, extracted predatorily and exported at
low prices, and turned out to be a source of super-profits for individual
'nouveaux riches' and for entire corrupt groups, who sacrifice the ecological
safety and the health and wealth of present and the future generations for
their greedy interests. Shamelessly, huge material resources, a unique patrimony
of mankind, are being plundered and exterminated, causing enormous damage to
the whole environment and affecting the climate; and, what is more important,
the natural conditions of life and activity for successive generations are
being deformed.
To stand idly by, to be impartial, means to be condemned to extinction.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who are too careless, too
irresponsible about this problem,
The problem of ecological security long ago surpassed national and
regional limits and became a global problem for mankind. Nature and man
interact on the basis of certain laws; infringement of these laws leads to
irreversible ecological disasters.
The issue of ecology is a topical one in all countries of the world, in
all parts of the earth; the degree of its acuteness varies from country to
country and from world region to world region.
We must regretfully say that the Central Asian region represents one of
the most dangerous areas of ecological disaster. The cumulative result of
having ignored this problem over many decades underlines the complexity of the
situation. Practically all spheres of human habitat and activity in the region
are jeopardized by the risk of ecological disaster. We have learned to our cost
that nature does not tolerate presumptuous mistreatment, Nature forgives
nothing.
The false dogma of socialist ideology stipulating that man is master of
nature has turned out to be, particularly in the Central Asian region, a
tragedy for many people. It has put entire populations and nations on the brink
of extinction, and of the disappearance of their unique genetic make-up.
Firstly, the threat of a scarcity
of usable land and its low quality is an increasing cause of concern. In
As a result of all this, the recovery of the land and the implementation
of a broad set of measures targeting a reduction in polluted soil is a task of
paramount importance in the environmental protection of
Secondly, the acute shortage of
water resources and their contamination, both surface and underground, cause
great anxiety in Uzbekistan from the point of view of ecological security.
Rivers, canals and water reservoirs of the Republic and even underground waters
are subjected to various man-made effects.
In arid areas water is an invaluable gift of nature. All of life depends
on water: life comes to a halt where water has gone.
Yet water resources in
Nowadays all the water resources of the
As the watershed is mostly located in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan and
Tajikistan, and most water resources are used for irrigation by all Central
Asian republics, the problem of the joint and coordinated management of the
limited water resources of the Aral Sea basin in the interests of all the
states of the region and in line with ecological requirements to provide water
to the rivers' delta and the Aral Sea in order to create acceptable living
conditions there is acute and demands a constructive solution.
Another important problem of the region is connected with the need to
implement a set of measures aimed at water protection and water saving through
closer linkage of the irrigation network performance with irrigation techniques
in order to minimize losses of water. It will be necessary to regulate the
flowing of collector drainage waters and to stop completely the residual waters
flowing to the rivers and reservoirs.
Thirdly, the disappearance of the
The Aral crisis is one of the biggest ecological and human catastrophes
in recorded history and affects approximately 35 million people who live in the
sea basin. Over a 20 - 25 year period we are witnessing the disappearance of
one of the biggest exclusive water reservoirs in the world, Never before has
such a case been witnessed in history: in the lifetime of only one generation,
the death of a whole sea.
Fourthly, air pollution is also a
threat to ecological security in the
All these environmental problems could be written not only in one book
but in many ones.