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Likely Climate Changes, Hazards and Impacts and Possible
Adaptations in the Pyanj River Basin
Climate Change
Hazards
Impacts
Possible Adaptations
 Increased threat to life,
 Resiliency measures in at
buildings and land in
risk villages based on
mountain valleys of
periodic risk assessment of
 More ice dam bursts
GBAO due to ice dam
ice dams e.g. early warning
bursts
systems,
evacuation plans,
Lena, this slide
is based on Table 8-3
in the Mid-term Report,
therefore
General glacier
hard defences
retreat
most of the text
is already translated
 Increased erosion of
unprotected river banks
 Investment in hard flood
 Individual glacier
and destruction of flood
defences and maintenance
surges
embankments & other
machinery
Increasing
riparian infrastructure in
temperature
 More melt water in
GBAO and Khatlon in the  Preparation of flood
medium-term
short and medium-term
management plans, flood
warning systems
 Larger summer
 Reduced surface water
floods in main rivers
supply to downstream
 Water sharing agreements,
users in Khatlon, and
storage, demand
 Less melt water in
also Afghanistan,
management, irrigation
long-term
Uzbekistan,
efficiency, forestation
Turkmenistan and the
Aral Sea in the long-term
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Likely Climate Changes, Hazards and Impacts and Possible Adaptations
in the Pyanj River Basin (continued)
Climate Change
Hazards
 Less soil moisture
Impacts
 Increased crop water
requirements
Possible Adaptations
 Alternative crop systems
 Increased irrigation
 Less groundwater
 Reduced spring flow and
efficiency
recharge
Lena, this slide
is based on Table 8-3
in
the
Mid-term
Report,
therefore
borehole yield
 Alternative water supplies
most of the text is already translated
Increasing
evapotranspiration
Less snowfall
 Less replenishment
of glaciers and
smaller snowfields in
the mountains;
reduced river flow in
summer
 Less water available
directly from melting
snow in the dry season
 Drought management plans
 In the long term, less
water available from
melting ice
 Dams and reservoirs
 Fewer avalanches
 Irrigation efficiency
 More rockfalls
 Forestation
 Water sharing agreements
 Demand management
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Likely Climate Changes, Hazards and Impacts and Possible Adaptations
in the Pyanj River Basin (continued)
Climate Change
Hazards
Impacts
Possible Adaptations
 Detailed survey and
assessment of flash flood
and mudflow risks in
 Increased threat to life,
lowlands (loess) and upland
buildings
and
land in
Lena, this slide
is based
Table 8-3
in
the
Mid-term
Report,
therefore
 More
fluvialon
flash
(eroding
mountain
GBAO and Khatlon
More intense
rain
floods
and
topography)
most of the textmudflows
is already translated
adjacent to steep
tributary rivers and
streams
 Investment in flood defence
infrastructure at priority risk
zones
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