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A new series of three-day seminars for specialists working in the water sector of the country has started in Turkmenistan. The main objective of the course is to "pump up" the basic knowledge of experts in environmental issues, namely, to consider the impact of climate change on water resources on a regional and national scale. Also, the training program will study the skills of employees to correctly and timely apply adaptation measures for water supply to various sectors of the economy of Turkmenistan.

The "listeners" of the seminar will be specialists of the city and district departments of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Ministry of Agriculture, the State Committee of Water Management, the City Hall of Ashgabat, the S. A. Niyazov State Agricultural University and the Dashoguz branch of the Directorate of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS).

The course participants will consider the most relevant topics, including the sustainable use of Turkmenistan's water resources in drinking and municipal water supply, changes in meteorological climate indicators in Turkmenistan and their impact on water consumption, the impact of climate change on the irrigation regime of crops, as well as innovative measuring instruments as a tool for adaptation to the effects of climate change.

Within the framework of the forum, representatives of the Production Association "Ashgabatagyzsuv" of the Municipal Utilities Department of the capital municipality made a presentation of their work on the use of modern technologies for wastewater treatment. They shared practical experience applied in the reuse of treated wastewater and drainage water for technological needs.

The seminar participants also visited a new drinking water plant in Ashgabat and got acquainted with the production of a water treatment plant created to provide high-quality drinking water to the population of the city. The capital plant is the fourth in a row in the system of drinking water enterprises and city wells, designed to produce 250,000 cubic meters of water per day. It is part of a single looped water supply system of the capital.

A series of trainings was launched within the framework of the project "Development of the national Adaptation Planning Process in Turkmenistan", implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) with the financial support of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) in cooperation with the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Turkmenistan.

The course was organized in partnership with the Scientific and Information Center of the Interstate Coordinating Water Management Commission (SIC ICWC) and the Scientific and Information Center of the Interstate Commission for Sustainable Development (SIC ICSD) of IFAS. These institutes provide the seminar participants with platforms to strengthen ties between scientists working in the field of water management of Turkmenistan with experts from other countries of the Central Asian region and open up a space for the exchange of experience and cooperation of specialists.

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