KSU teachers of Ecology Department of Agriculture and Biology Faculty G.B.Yunussova and A.I.Khassanova participated in training on the topic «Integral management of water resources (IMWR): economic and legal aspects». The training took place at German-Kazakh University for teachers of the water sector of Kazakh Higher Education Institutions within the collaborative project EU/ UNDP /UNECE «Kazakhstan’s support for the transition to the model of green economy».

The lectures and extra-mural practical classes hold B.Janusz-Pawletta - professor of German-Kazakh University (Almaty), M.P. van Dijk- professor of UNESCO Institute for Water Education (Delft, Netherlands), professor S.Ibatullin - UNECE consultant from Kazakhstan, associate professor M.Narbayev - the Aral Saving Fund, the executive directorate in Kazakhstan, A.Nikolayenko - regional councillor of GIZ TWMCA.

Listeners received the picture of institutional and legal frameworks of the impacts of hydropower, water consumption of industrial enterprises and utilities sectors, sustainable farming on the water resources of Kazakhstan. The situation in the countries of EU and Africa was described for comparison. The implemented examples were demonstrated, for example, in China and Singapore, the economic analysis of ecological and social data by the methods of benchmarking allows choosing rational means for water use on the regional level. Thus, effects are created in agriculture (rational use of land and water resources), in social sphere (sustainable practices of water use). In the case of complex and longstanding environmental protection around the Aral was demonstrated how this complex of ecological, economic and social instruments works, resulting in the positive, and also to the negative results.

The received skills of legal and economic information’s using were valuable for the impact assessment on the water resources.