The Ili River originates in the mountains of Xinjiang, China, and flows across an increasingly
arid landscape before terminating in Kazakhstan's Lake Balkhash, which has no outlet to the …

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 …

Satellite remote sensing has been widely used to monitor the water quality of inland and
coastal environments. Using satellite data from the Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper (L5TM), Ho …

The continued search and urgent need for renewable fuel sources have necessitated the
exploration of microalgae to identify relevant species for making biofuels. The aim of the …

The water availability in Kazakhstan is 37000 m 3 per one km 2 and 3650 m 3 per capita a
year, an amount that is lower than the world average (around 6000 m 3)(Knoema, 2016). It is …

Abstract The Aral Sea was the fourth largest lake in the world before 1960. Reduction of
water resources and the growth of water intake and reservoirs in the source rivers have …

The Ili River is a transboundary river shared by China, upstream, and Kazakhstan,
downstream. The Ili is the main water supplier to Lake Balkhash, the largest lake in Central …

Abstract The Ili-Balkhash Basin in Central Asia is an arid endorheic basin shared by China
and Kazakhstan. Population growth, socio-economic development, ecological conservation …

Groundwater-dependent ecosystems (GDEs) exist all over the world, especially in water-
limited regions. To achieve better water management, it is necessary to map and identify …

Lake Balkhash is the largest water body in Central Asia. More than three-quarters of its
inflow comes from the Ili River, which is under increasing strain due to the diversion of water …