Contents -- List of figures in Section I and II -- List of tables in Section II -- Acknowledgements -- Units -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Country and river basin profiles -- Data collection, processing and reliability -- Glossary of terms -- Geography, climate and population -- Economy, agriculture and food security -- Water resources -- Water withdrawal -- Irrigation -- Trends -- Legislative and institutional framework for water management -- Environment and health -- Prospects for agricultural water management -- Main sources of information -- Afghanistan -- Kazakhstan -- Kyrgyzstan -- Tajikistan -- Turkmenistan -- Uzbekistan -- The Aral Sea transboundary river basin.