Saving and increasing water resources is an indispensable factor for the inhabitants of the Central Asian Countries. The countries of Central Asia located in the common ecological area of the Aral Sea basin (ASB) to a different extent are suffering from limitation in water resources. Catastrophic drying up of the Aral Sea has caused storage of drinking and irrigation water for inhabitants of whole region and undermined the life foundation of the ASB inhabitants – agriculture. Disappearance of water brought in another problem. Because of the continuous process of disinflation (destruction, weathering, blowout), dust and salt from dried bottom of the Aral Sea rise and spread for many hundreds of kilometers, mix up with clouds and fall with precipitation throughout Central Asia. For the last 40 years water aria of the Aral Sea decreased by almost 6 times, volume of water reduced by more than 15 times, salinity of water makes up in the west part from 110 gr/l to 112 gr/l, in east part up to 280 gr/l. The Uzbek State Forest Management and Design-Exploration Enterprise ‘Urmon-Loyikha’ following the project ‘Creation of Protective Wood of Local Trees and Bushes at the Area of 20000 hectares of the Akkum Ridge and the Akhantay Part of Dried Bottom of the Aral Sea’, which is being implemented by the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea. The project aims at preventing further advancement of barkhan sand, strengthening of dried bottom of the Aral Sea, reducing wind erosion and involving the dried territory of the Aral Sea into economic use by means of cattle- breeding development. Following to this project, such plants as saksaul, cherkez (salsola), tamarisk (tamarix), kandim (calligonum) and other will be planted at the dried saline soil. These plants can become the main climate-regulating link and support ecological balance of the natural environment because they accumulate dust, keep the advancing sand, disengage oxygen, absorb carbon dioxide. During the last year the great work upon the project ‘Development of the Dried Part of the Aral Sea Based on the Local Salt and Dust Anchoring Plants’ the mechanized planting seeding of reed has been established, seeding of saksaul, cherkez, kandym have been planted by land.

According to the data of IFSAS. The material is prepared by M. Grigoriants