Agreement between Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan on water management.

The scope of the present Agreement is to regulate some issue regarding joint waterworks regulating water drain into the Aral Sea. The Parties have agreed as follows: (a) land conceded by Turkmenistan to Uzbekistan for the location of waterworks shall be the property of the latter (art. 1); (b) the apportioning of water of the Amu Darya flow shall be distributed in equal parts (fifty-fifty) and a share of it shall be allocated to the Aral Sea, land reclamation and management of irrigation systems and waterworks shall be carried out jointly (art. 6); (c) every efforts should be made to prevent river bed deformation and underflooding of the adjacent areas (art. 7).