“There is a lot of water this year. It is still coming. One day, 195 cubic meters of water arrived per second. Just within three days, the average water level has risen by 1.5 meters,” said reservoir worker Sabit Orynbayev.
The reservoir currently holds 185 million cubic meters of water, which allows farmers to actively supply water to irrigate their fields. This year, the reservoir has collected about 300 million cubic meters of water.
At the request of farmers, 86 cubic meters of water per second is currently being released to irrigate more than 85 thousand hectares in the Talgar and Enbekshikazakh districts. Since the beginning of the irrigation season, 625 million cubic meters of water have already been sent to farmers through the Big Almaty Canal.
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