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Erosion in the Vakhsh Valley: How Soil Disappears into Rivers
The Vakhsh flows swift and muddy through its gorges, carrying soil from slopes high above into its depths: a river of dust, rock, and memory. From the ridges of the Pamirs down toward the lowland plains, erosion is never distant; it breathes in every valley, slips through every side stream, and tests every patch of…
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Women and Water: Gendered Geographies of Labor
In many Tajik villages, the sound of water is inseparable from women’s daily lives. At dawn, before the heat rises, women walk to canals, springs, or village taps with buckets and plastic containers, chatting softly as they queue. Later, they return to wash clothes at stream edges, irrigate kitchen gardens, or clean tools. These scenes…
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Riverine Fisheries: Decline and Adaptation
On the lower reaches of Tajikistan’s rivers, as spring runoff gives way to summer flows, fishermen gather at dawn along the banks with nets, handlines, and aging wooden boats. Their activity is both timeless and newly fragile. Riverine fisheries, which once was an abundant, integral part of local livelihoods and riparian ecosystems have been steadily…
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Soils, Agriculture, Tajikistan, Erosion, Salinity, Farming, Land Management, Central Asia
The rivers of Tajikistan move fast. Snowmelt pours from glaciers, tumbling through gorges, twisting around boulders, white spray catching the light. For centuries these waters carved valleys, nourished fields, and gave rhythm to life. Today, they carry another kind of power: electricity. Hydropower plants line the Vakhsh and other rivers, their dams rising like walls…
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