Prime Minister Mamin highlights importance of water resourcesâ efficient use 22 December 2020 11:21 Share in: NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM â Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Askar Mamin highlighted the importance of efficient use of water resources at the Governmentâs session on Tuesday, Kazinform reports. Related news «Currently, 65% of water consumption [in Kazakhstan] falls at agriculture. Provision of the agro-industrial sector with qualitative and guaranteed water volume directly affects the countryâs food security,» Premier Mamin told the Cabinet. According to him, Kazakhstan shares a lot of transboundary waters with others countries, including China, Russia, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan and the use of those waters is regulated by a number of inter-governmental agreements. For instance, this month Kazakhstan and Russia adopted the program of cooperation in terms of preservation and rehabilitation of the ecosystems of such transborder rivers as Ural and Irtysh.