Tashkent, Sept. 17 -- Shavkat Mirziyoyev urged to maintain 50 % reduced rate of water use for agricultural enterprises next year. The video conference chaired by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev was on discussion of these and other problems, as well as issues on introduction of energy efficient technologies and the implementation of public-private partnership projects in the water industry.

Over the past two years, 11 government resolutions have been adopted in the water sector. However, the law execution leaves a lot to be desired. Thus, water-saving technologies have been used only on 285 thousand hectares, which is 7 percent of the country's useful land. The President lambasted the work on water resources management in the Republic. It is...