HITS POOR WATER MANAGEMENT IN SAMARKAND OBLAST

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October 20, 1950
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REPORT
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/14 :CIA-RDP80-00809A000600350552-0 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 TXIS OOCVY[NT CONTAINS INIOBNATIOM ALF[CTIND TN[ NATIONAL O[iLN3[ Oi TNC UNIT [0 STAT[S WITHIN TNL YEA NINE OF []PIO NAOE ACT BO U. ]. C., ]I ANO ][, AS AYEN O[D. ITS TRANSYIS SION OR TML RLY[LATIOX Oi ITS CONTENTS IN ANT YAN NLR TO AN UNAUTNO RIZ [0 PE PS ON IS PRO? XIBITLD LT LAW. R[PRODUCTION OF TXIS TORY I] PROXIBiT[0. DATE DIST. ~c Oct 150 N0. OF PAGES 2 SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT N0. 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. ' ARMY Ih~AIR ~xl FBI SEC~Et ~~I Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/14 :CIA-RDP80-00809A000600350552-0 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/14 :CIA-RDP80-00809A000600350552-0 SEVRET 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. 50X1-HUM '~ SEC~Et Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/14 :CIA-RDP80-00809A000600350552-0