«Clean water-a source of quality life» webinar was held on April 9, 2020

The webinar was the first of a series of webinars on key environmental issues in Kazakhstan organized by Dossym Satpayev Private Fund in partnership with the Kazakh-German University with the support of the OSCE Center in Nursultan, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Kazakhstan, and the online eco-magazine LIVEN' Living Asia.

During the discussion, experts from Kazakhstan discussed the current situation, water quality standards and criteria in Kazakhstan, existing trends and solutions in the country in the field of water quality, the role of each citizen of Kazakhstan in the field of water quality preservation.

«Today, Kazakhstan is developing a program for water resources management Kazakhstan for 2020−2030 This program also discusses environmental issues. In this regard, we need to specify our conversation and show which items fall under this program: which projects and programs. We need to show what will happen next after writing the book.» — Mr. Nariman Kipshakbayev, Director of the Kazakhstan branch of the Scientific Information Center of the Interstate Water Coordination Commission;

The series of webinars on key environmental issues in Kazakhstan is an important stage in writing a collective monograph on environmental threats and solutions in Kazakhstan with the participation of local and international experts — environmentalists, demographers, economists and political scientists. The book will be published in the end of 2020 in Russian, Kazakh and later in English with the support and co-authorship of Kazakh political and public figure Dossym Satpayev.