Photo gallery: addressing land degradation, soil contamination and water management
20 March 2010
Sunset in Khujand, the only Tajik region contaminated by radioactive waste, November 2005. The OSCE Centre in Dushanbe opened an Aarhus environmental Centre in the region in July 2005. (OSCE/Surat Toimastov)
Scientists from Tbilisi State University take river samples for the Caucasus Regional Water Surface Monitoring Project, part of the OSCE/NATO Science for Peace Programme, November 2004. (OSCE/Natela Grigalashvili)
A 300 metres high radioactive waste
hill raises above Taboshar City
(Tajikistan). The waste is spread and
washed out by the winds and rains,
potentially damaging the environment
and human health. (OSCE)
Water gushing from the Koman hydroelectric power plant in the North of Albania, June 2004. Albanian power production is almost exclusively based on the hydroelectric power plants. (Suela Shala/OSCE)