Alternative Water Allocation in Kyrgyzstan: Lessons from the Lower Colorado River Basin and New South Wales

Acknowledgments 
The authors thank the Swiss Development Agency for providing financial support for this study 
under the Regional Development project entitled “Integrated Water Resource Management in Fergana 
Valley.” They thank Morton D. from Texas University at Austin for his contributions to the 
development of the water allocation model applied in this study. They also thank Kingsley 
Kurukulasuriya, Sri Lanka, for his valuable linguistic contribution to this paper which made it
more readable.
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