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, G T Supaeva
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, T Dzholdosheva
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N Dzholdoshev
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Turan–Astana University, the Department of Finance, 29, Ykylas Dukenuly street, 
Nur–Sultan, 010000, Kazakhstan 
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Moscow Witte University, 12 Stroenie 1, 2–I Kozhuhovski proezd, 119454 
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Saken Seifullin Kazakh Argotechnical University, 62, Zhenis prospect, Nur–Sultan, 
010000, Kazakhstan 
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М. Ryskulbekov Kyrgyz economic University, 58, Togolok Moldo, Bishkek, 720001, 
Kyrgyzstan,
E-mail: [e-mail] 
Abstract. 
The current situation in the water sector of Kazakhstan is one of the important 
problems in the country's environmental protection system. One of the priorities of the 
sustainable development policy is to ensure the well–being of the population, the introduction 
of environmental technologies, the creation of environmentally friendly water resources, 
providing the regions of the country with clean water, and much more. Important changes have 
taken place in the country's water sector, and positive dynamics are beginning to be determined 
not only by intentions, but also by real actions aimed at improving the quality of fresh water 
and the entire water fund. The purpose of this article is to identify the problems of effective 
water use and renewal of water resources and the features of the transition to sustainable 
development of Kazakhstan's economies in the context of globalization. In the context of 
globalization, the nature of the correlation between water management and the strategic 
directions of water resources management in the country is radically changing.

1. Introduction 
The water resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan are very limited compared to many neighboring 
countries. There is a regional deficit in certain river basins, as a result of which there are losses in the 
fishing industry and agriculture, degradation of lakes, rivers, wetlands. The expected trends of 
increasing water consumption and decreasing water availability threaten the growth of the regional 
deficit, which six of the eight water basins of Kazakhstan may face by 2040. If the efficiency of water 
resources use and management is not improved, then by 2040 the water shortage will increase, which 
will negatively affect the supply of water to the population, GDP growth and the state of the 
environment. It is becoming institutionally and economically urgent to solve the issue of transferring 
the function of production operation (organization and conduct of water use) of irrigation systems of 
republican ownership to agricultural producers (agricultural companies or their associations, large 
farms that solely use suspended lands) without a tender (targeted), on the basis of their initiative 

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AFE 2021
IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science
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(2021) 032012
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doi:10.1088/1755-1315/937/3/032012
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appeal. At the same time, the functions of technical operation, taking into account the experience of 
WUAs of foreign countries and domestic organizations of water use [1–16]. 
In the last two decades, there has been growing concern about the state of the planet's water 
resources around the world, associated with the growth of their consumption and the scale of 
pollution. The growth of the world's population, the widespread development of irrigation and 
drainage, as well as the acceleration of industrialization have led to an increase in the use of an 
increasing number of already limited fresh water resources. Large–scale and uncontrolled pollution of 
rivers and other water bodies in Central Asia and Kazakhstan continues. The attitude to water 
resources continues to be consumer–oriented, rational use and protection of water have not become the 
subject of careful attention at all levels of the hierarchy of their management. As noted in the "Strategy 
Kazakhstan–2050" [1–14], we have already faced a serious issue of the use of water resources of 
transboundary rivers, which does not allow its politicization. In the world, depending on the natural 
and climatic conditions, the adopted system of economic management, traditions and other factors, 
each state solves issues related to the management of the use and protection of water resources in its 
own way. However, thanks to the joint global experience, methods or approaches to water resources 
management have begun to change dramatically and are reduced to a more or less universal platform, 
to common principles based on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) [4–9].