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A new PEER project will study water resource management in Central Asia's Amu Darya river basin.
The Amu Darya river basin, as seen from space. The Amu Darya is the largest river in Central Asia, and flows through Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. A PEER project will pair scientists from the region with Johns Hopkins University researchers to examine water resource management in the region.
Credit: Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center
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