The Irtysh River in the hydro policy of Russia, Kazakhstan and China

... Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR), and for the needs of the oil industry. With the commissioning of the channel into design capacity, China’s water intake from the river increased almost 5 times to 5 km3 per year. Aleksey Vasty'anov / Flickr Irtysh, Russia In the future, during the development of its western provinces, China plans to build new canals, reservoirs, dams, hydroelectric power stations on the Irtysh River and on other smaller sources of transboundary rivers, which threatens an environmental ...