Necessary to develop groundwater use program: K.Massimov

ASTANA. January 30. KAZINFORM /Muratbek Makulbekov/ Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov set the Ministry of Environment Protection together with the Committee for Water Resources of the Ministry of Agriculture a task to study possibility of groundwater usage, Kazinform reports.

?The Head of the State set the task and it is necessary to develop special program on groundwater use in 2009?, the Premier said. K.Massimov noted that lack of fresh water exists in Kazakhstan, in this regard we should use it economically. The Head of the Government touched upon the issues of overflow danger for rural areas of Syr-Darya River. ?I hope, we will not have problems with it this year?, K.Massimov said.