Presidential Decree UP No. 23 validating the National Water Strategy until 2040.

The scope of the National Water Strategy until 2040 is to create a sustainable water resources management system in the Kyrgyz Republic for the benefit of present and future generations.
To achieve this goal, measures will be implemented in the following priority areas: (a) protection of water resources from depletion and pollution; (b) rational use of water resources; and (c) reform of the water resources management system.
Task 1. Protection of water bodies: (a) preservation of waterbodies in a condition that ensures their environmental sustainability; (b) improving the accounting and control of water use, monitoring the state of waterbodies and controlling environmental pollution. Task 2. Improving state water registration: (a) improving the state accounting of waterbodies and the water resources concentrated in them, which constitute the state water fund, is the basis for increasing the efficiency of water use and protection thereof; (b) measurement of water quantity and water quality, including monitoring of waterbodies; (c) strengthening of state control over compliance with water legislation; (d) keeping State water register; and (e) recording and registration of water users based on the issuance of permits/licenses for water use. Task 3. Ensuring safe and high-quality water supply, sanitation and wastewater disposal: (a) use of low water consumption technologies in industry; (b) division of water supply into drinking and domestic in the housing and communal services sector; and (c) introduction of mandatory instrumental metering of extracted groundwater and withdrawn surface water by water users.
Expected result: implementation of the Strategy will allow the creation of a sustainable water resources management system at the national level to preserve the natural potential for the benefit of the present and the future generations.