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Home > Workshop and Training > IN JAPAN > Fiscal Year 2010 > FY2010 JICA-Commissioned Training Course Closes on Water-Quality Monitoring for Effective Usage of Water Resources in Central Asia

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Update:December 20, 2010

FY2010 JICA-Commissioned Training Course Closes on Water-Quality Monitoring for Effective Usage of Water Resources in Central Asia

A fiscal year 2010 training course on Water-Quality Monitoring for Effective Usage of Water Resources in Central Asia, commissioned by JICA, was held from November 5 to December 10.
Six participants came from the Environment Ministry, the Environment Committee, and the Hydrometeorological Service of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.


Closing ceremony

Major rivers, such as the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya, run across the borders of the Central Asian countries. Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, both located in the lower reaches of the rivers, tend to suffer from a lack of good-quality water resources. For that reason, the course was designed for the participants to learn the Japanese technical know-how of water management for public use, to acquire knowledge and skills to improve their water-quality monitoring system to fully grasp the current situation, and thereby to raise the possibility for water use.

Sampling training


Analytical training (nitrite-nitrogen)

In the course, they conducted a lot of practice work to sample water, analyze water quality, and process data in order to learn how repeated data collection and processing can lead to useful information to develop policies. Many of them voiced the intention to improve a series of these monitoring methods after returning home by taking full advantage of what they had learnt in the course. They mentioned an idea that they intend to share with each other the results of water-quality monitoring of cross-border rivers in the future.

Analytical training (Total-Hg contained in hair)

At the Arid Land Research Center, Tottori University

During their stay in Japan, they were blessed with good weather and enjoyed the beauty of autumnal red leaves in many places. They had the impression that Japan’s beautiful living environment must be formed and sustained not only by its geographical and climatic factors but also by the Japanese awareness of it. They left expressing their reluctance to leave Japan by saying “I don’t want to leave!” and ”I will be back some time!”. (Minamikawa)