Vital Caspian Graphics 2

Hazards in and around the Caspian

Aktobe

VOLGA-DON CANAL

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KAPUSTIN YAR

AZGYR

KAZAKHSTAN

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TUHLAYA BALKA SEDIMENTATION TANK

Atyrau

Elista

Astrakhan

TENGIZ OIL FIELD

Stavropol

Absheron

ARAL SEA

MAYAK NUCLEAR FACILITY WASTE SITE KOSHKAR-ATA TAILING POND MINING SITE

Bautino

RUSSIA

Groznyi

CASPIAN SEA

SAY UTES

Vladikavkaz

Aktau

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UZBEKISTAN

UZEN OIL FIELD

Makhachkala

Tskhinvali

Derbent

GEORGIA

Tbilisi

KARA BOGAZ GOL

MERCURY WASTE SITE

AZERBAIJAN ARMENIA

Sumgait

Yerevan

Dubendi

TURKMENISTAN

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Baku

Turkmenbashi

NAKHICHEVAN (AZER.)

RADIOACTIVE WASTE

Balkanabat

Nakhichevan

KARA-KUM CANAL

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IODINE AND BROMINE PLANT

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Gyzyl-Arbat

Tabriz

Ashkabad

IRAN

Gasan Kuli

Rasht

Bender

Ramsar

IRAQ

Gorgan

Babol

IRAN

Qazvin

Sari

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Tehran

MAP BY PHILIPPE REKACEWICZ - APRIL 2006 Updated in 2011

Polluted rivers (industry and municipal sewage water) Land-based source of river pollution (mainly heavy industries) Identified poorly stored hazardous industrial waste site or polluting industrial activities Former nuclear testing site Main direction of sandstorm causing salt transfers toward arable lands of the Volga region

Oil and gas drilling

Topography, metres

Below sea level

Ispahan Polluted sea (oil, pesticides, chemicals, heavy metals or bacteriological pollution) Polluted soils and land degradation Area under exploration for oil and gas (high potential) Oil wells flooded and leaking Projected off-shore pipelines

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Bagdad

Soil salinisation

Ahvaz

Sources: National Caspian Action Plan of Azerbaijan, 2002; National Action Programme on Enhancement of the Environment of the Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan 2003-2012; Environmental Performance Review of Kazakhstan , UNECE, 2000; Environmental Performance Review of Azerbaijan , UNECE, 2003; Study for Safe Management of Radioactive Sites in Turkmenistan , NATO, 2005; Environment and Security: Transforming Risks into Cooperation, Case of Central Asia , UNEP/UNDP/OSCE, 2003 ; Global Alarm: Dust and Sandstorms from the WorldЂs Drylands , UNCCD, 2001; IEA, World Energy Outlook 2010.

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