about 1 billion cubic meters of water accumulated after flood in Kazakhstan, directed to the Caspian Sea.
In the statement of the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation of Kazakhstan, it is reported that the flood waters were merged into the Caspian Sea on 4 channels in the Atyrau region.
According to this application, these channels can skip up to 12 million cubic meters of water per day: “In each channel, experts carried out cleaning, strengthening and other work. In addition, another channel of 14.5 kilometers long for water flow into the Caspian was dug up Sea.
The Ministry notes that 30 million cubic meters of water from Russia are also sent to the drying lakes in the west of the country.
Flooding in Kazakhstan
In Kazakhstan, due to fluids caused by the melting of snow at the end of March, more than 119 thousand people were evacuated, 5 thousand 718 houses were flooded in Akmola, Aktobe, Atyrau, Kustanai and North Kazakhstan regions, more than 8 thousand heads of livestock died.
President Kasim-Zhomart Tokayev said the flood has become the largest natural disaster in the country over the past 80 years.