Kyrgyzstan & Kazakhstan: Water Dispute Highlights Potential for Conflict

    By Joanna Lillis     A water and land dispute between villagers living on the border between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan has been smoothed over after the governments in Astana and Bishkek were forced to intervene.     A canal which Kyrgyz villagers had blocked for 10 days, plugging the flow of water to farmers on the...