The Asian Development Bank’s outstanding loans to Karakalpakstan exceed $760 million — a fifth of its entire Uzbekistan portfolio — financing water treatment plants, road reconstruction and a 200-megawatt wind farm in one of Central Asia’s most climate-stressed regions.
A large-scale study completed in Nukus on 7 May 2025 has produced two new analytical tools for monitoring dust migration across the Southern Aral Sea region and, for the first time, quantified in digital terms how vegetation cover on the drained sea bed reduces salt removal.
