Largest irrigation and water supply canals in the world
The Karakum Canal (lower right) and the Hanhowuz Reservoir, 2014.a ship crossing the Karakum Canal.
The Karakum Canal (Qaraqum Canal, Kara Kum Canal, Garagum Canal; Russian: Каракумский канал, Karakumskiy Kanal, Turkmen: Garagum kanaly, گَرَگوُم كَنَلیٛ, Гарагум каналы) in Turkmenistan is one of the largest irrigation and water supply canals in the world. Started in 1954, and completed in 1988, it is navigable over much of its 1,375-kilometre (854 mi) length, and carries 13 cubic kilometres (3.1 cu mi) of water annually from the Amu-Darya River across the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan. The canal opened up huge new tracts of land to agriculture, especially to cotton monoculture heavily promoted by the Soviet Union, and supplying Ashgabat with a major source of water. The canal is also a major factor leading to the Aral Sea environmental disaster. The Soviet regime planned to at some time extend the canal to the Caspian Sea.[1]
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The KarakumCanal (Qaraqum Canal, Kara Kum Canal, Garagum Canal; Russian: Каракумский канал, Karakumskiy Kanal, Turkmen: Garagum kanaly, گَرَگوُم كَنَلیٛ...
The Karakum Desert, also spelled Kara-Kum and Gara-Gum (Turkmen: Garagum, pronounced [ɢɑɾɑˈɢʊm], from gara ("black") and gum ("sand"); Russian: Караку́мы...
Karakum may refer to: Karakum Desert, a desert in Central Asia Aral Karakum Desert Karakum (film), a 1994 Turkmen film KarakumCanal, Turkmenistan Karakum...
disappears into the Karakum Desert.The Tejen River is the third largest, and it has been diverted to flow into the KarakumCanal. The Atrek River rises...
Murghab. Reaching the oasis of Mary in the Karakum Desert of Turkmenistan, the Marghab debouches into the KarakumCanal, a diversion of water from the Amu Darya...
Bulgaria and China. A water integrator was used in the design of the KarakumCanal in the 1940s, and the construction of the Baikal–Amur Mainline in the...
monumental projects sheathed in costly white marble. The Soviet-era KarakumCanal runs through the city, carrying waters from the Amu Darya from east...
natural gas extraction. Agriculture in Mary Region is irrigated by the KarakumCanal, which runs east to west through the center of the province, and by...
construction of the KarakumCanal. The first phase was approved in 1952, and construction began in 1954. By 1959 in the first phase the canal had connected...
traffic intersection. From the north of the village passes through the KarakumCanal. "Новые объекты транспортной инфраструктуры столицы". Archived from...
leakage in main and secondary canals, especially Turkmenistan's main canal, the KarakumCanal. Nearly half of the canal's water seeps out into lakes and...
the KarakumCanal is the brown ribbon dropping down from the upper right corner and heading south and east from the reservoir. A portion of the canal is...
total industrial production. Ahal's agriculture is irrigated by the KarakumCanal, which stretches all the way across the province from east to west,...
in areas distant from natural rivers depends mainly on the decrepit KarakumCanal, which carries water across Turkmenistan from the Amu Darya to near...
build a 1,600-km (1,500-verst) canal stretching from the upper reaches of the Amu Darya in Afghanistan through the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan all the...
65°17′E / 37.467°N 65.283°E / 37.467; 65.283 Type Reservoir Part of KarakumCanal Built 1963 Surface area 465 square kilometres (180 sq mi) References...
köli locally, alternatively as Karakum Lake, is a man-made lake under construction in the Karashor depression in the Karakum Desert of Turkmenistan. Upon...
oasis in the foothills of the Kopetdag Mountains and on the edge of the Karakum Desert. Bereket is a strategic junction of the Trans-Caspian Railway (Caspian...
according to calculations. The purpose of the canal was cotton growing, mastery of the new earth in the Karakum Desert, and later, navigation from the Volga...
by the M37 highway, a rail station on the Trans-Caspian Railway, the KarakumCanal, and the Mary International Airport. "Türkmenistanyň Mejlisiniň Karary...
river-ports and operates 1,013 km (629 mi) of river-ways on Amu Darya and KarakumCanal. Owns Turkmenabat River Port. Since 1993 Turkmenistan has been a member...
Yuri Trifonov covering the friendship between workers who built the KarakumCanal and The Slave Girl (1968) based on a short story by Andrei Platonov...
Upon construction of the KarakumCanal to its north in the 1960s, inhabitants of Murche settled at a new site closer to the canal. Murche was left to ruins...
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