September 11, 2016 A Kyrgyz border guard tower stands watch over the Uzbek border, since both sides frequently make incursions into each other's territory, particularly over water in the Kyrgyz portion of the Fergana Valley, near the town of Ala-Buka. Climate change in Kyrgyzstan is affecting cross border water rights in the already ethnically divided Fergana Valley, all while glaciers melt in the Tian Shan Mountains. Tensions are rising as different groups compete for scarcer and scarcer resources.
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