The Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation of the Republic of Kazakhstan discharges water from large reservoirs in the northern, western, eastern and central regions of the country to receive and safely pass flood waters. As of March 20, the situation is as follows:

In the Akmola region, 9.95 cubic meters of water per second are discharged from the Astana reservoir, – 1.74 cubic meters per second from the Seletinsk reservoir, and – 30 cubic meters per second from the Chaglin reservoir.

In the Aktobe region, 0.5 cubic meters of water per second are discharged from the Aktobe and Kargaly reservoirs. Last year both facilities were reconstructed. Now they actively accumulate water and are filled to an average of 42%.

In the East Kazakhstan region, 605 cubic meters of water per second are discharged from the Ust-Kamenogorsk reservoir, and – 611 cubic meters per second from the Bukhtarma reservoir.

648 cubic meters of water per second are discharged from the Shulbinsky reservoir in the Abai region.

In the West Kazakhstan region, 10.6 cubic meters of water per second are discharged from the Kirov and Bitik reservoirs, and 8.1 cubic meters per second from the Dunguluk and Pyatimara reservoirs.

In the Karaganda region, 28.3 cubic meters of water per second are discharged from the Intumak reservoir, from the Samarkand reservoir – 20 cubic meters per second, from the Sherubai-Nurinsky reservoir – 13.7 cubic meters of water per second.

In the Kostanay region, 10 cubic meters of water per second are discharged from the Verkhne-Tobolsk and Karatomar reservoirs.

In the North Kazakhstan region, 91.5 cubic meters of water per second are discharged from the Sergeevsky reservoir, and – 42.86 cubic meters of water per second from the Petropavlovsk reservoir.