HITS POOR WATER MANAGEMENT IN SAMARKAND OBLAST

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• Publication Date: October 20, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION SECRETs~C~~T
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR -Uzbek SSR. DATE OF
INFORMATION 1950
SUBJECT Economic - Agriculture, water management
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Tashkent
DATE
PUBLISHED
LANGUAGE
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
HITS POOR WATER MANAGEMENT IN SAMARKAND OBLAST
Samarkand Oblast is not utilizing its water resources to the fullest ex-
tent, Pxoof is found in the cotton-growing industry, where irrigation work
is poorly orgaaizedA Sown areas are not efficiently irrigated. Often the
irrigation work drags out over a 2- or 3-month period. In .other cases, kolkh-
ozes begin irrigation work too late. This causes plants to be puny and delays
the normal course of cultivation.
During the past 2 months, no meetings have been held in Samarkand Oblast
to discuss irrigation procedures. The Oblast Party Committee and Ob1a~t Ex-
ecutive Committee have not made a single real attempt to investigate the con-
dition of?the oblast's hater management and to disclose why the organization
of irrigation ~aork has not been improved.
The extreme defects in the organization of irrigation work are explained,
first of all, by the unsatisfactory work done by the Oblast Water Management
and its, local organs, The principal defects are a result of water management
work~xs? concentrating their efforts on large canals and irrigation installa-
tions and overlooking organizational work in kolkhozes. Consequently, it is
of, little concern to them that nearly one-third of the water released by
kolkhozes for irrigating cotton fields never reaches the designated fields. ,
In a situe;;ion such as this, where water-management specialists have been
severed from kolkhoz operations, it can be seen that many engineers and tech-
niciana are,pverburdened with clerical work. In some cases, they have been
cut off.fra~il3 practical work on irrigation canals and in lcolkhozes for several
years at a time.
' Dz3aambayskiy Rayon now has seven engineers who are so occupied with writ-
ing reports that they do not have time to plan irrigation work or even to
visit kolkhozea> Specialists of the Oblast Water Management, together with
employees working for the live irrigation systems, are expected to write a
huge number of daily reports< Both the Oblast Party Committee and the Oblast
Executive Committee know this, yet they are doing nothing to remedy the situ-
ation. '
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organizations to utilize water rudentl ` ""'"""` vv..W.~u?cca uavc anaeu
P y.. Samarkand Oblast hs.s been especially
lax in fulfilling this demand because workers, agronomists,-and water management
khinga{rate do not-provide adequate plena. Furthermore, Past-Dargomakiy, Char-
d, Bz.,o,...~yanl~r, ~nud other'rayona allot water incorrectly because they 3v
not take into consideration changes resulting from remedial measures. fihis mis-
take could be avoided if agronomists participated in compiling water-utilization
plans.
An overwhelming majority of kDlkhozea have no?water-utilization plans at
all. As a result of unplanned irrigation,, on 20 May over half the cotton-
raising area in Kara-Dar'yinskiy, Komsomol'skiy, Mitanakiy, Iehtykhanakiy, and
Pay-Arykskiy rayons was not irrigated.
In addition, some areas of the oblsat are w~ating huge amounts of water.
In some cases, Crater is needlessly expended on repeated irrigation of crops; in
others, ~it is allowed to run into gullies s:nd ditches or onto the road.
Shamsutclinov; Minister for Water Management of Uzbek SSR, along with other
members of'the Ministry, has not sided reconstruction work in oblast water man-
agement. He is indifferent toward the work. For example . tA_P_ nt,i p a+ fro+o,. we., _
agement asked the ministry to avoid wastefulness is the Uzbek Water Supply Sys-
tem. All building materials designated for the five system administrations are
sent to the city of_Samarkand whence they are sent to the addressees. In the
first place, this makes shipping more expensive, and secondly, it delays deliv-
eries of needed building materials. Although Shamsutdinov.promised to change
the method pf transporting building materials, nothing has been done during the
past 2 months. Furthermore, the Uzbek Water Supply System:long ago was aup-
poaed to have sent structural iron for constructing water dischargers, but the
date for the intended receipt of this iron has long since passed and the iron
has not arrived.
It is up to the ministry, the Oblast Committee of the Uzbekistan Communist
Party, and the Oblast Committee to change their attitudes toward water manage-
ment and to make a real attempt to improve it.
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