00:00Kazakhstan launched the cloud seeding project, first of its kind in Central Asia.
00:05The first artificial rain fell on the city of Turkestan on the eve of the informal summit
00:09of the Organization of Turkic States.
00:12Central Asia is among the world's regions most affected by global warming and water
00:16shortage and the aim of the project is to alleviate the effects of drought on the agricultural
00:21regions of Kazakhstan.
00:22For last year, eight months in this Turkestan region, there were eight months of drought
00:27period, that's why we have to bring new technologies in order to come up with additional water resources.
00:36The cloud seeding is one of those technologies and we are basing on UAE experience.
00:42The project is done in cooperation with the National Meteorology Center of the United Arab Emirates.
00:48So it is educational, it is a pilot project and we will see the result after this project.
00:53Emirates specialists are training Kazakh meteorologists, engineers and pilots to use the technology
00:59that they have been using since 1980s.
01:02We fly, we take off to the certain locations that we started to build up the cloud and we
01:09give them the feedback of the cloud behavior such as the updraft, temperature, the cloud type
01:16and based on communication with the operation. The specialists decide how many flares are utilized
01:23for this cloud and we start applying the flares.
01:27The cloud seeding process is based on dispersing salts on the clouds which causes moderate local showers.
01:33It is environmentally tested and can increase the precipitation in the region by 10 to 20 percent.
01:39It is estimated it will save Kazakhstan around 65 million euros every year mainly through
01:45the increase of crop yield.
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