Kyrgyzstan Reservoir Transparency

Coverage is 0 (no national reservoirs >10 hm³ with public data). Quality dimensions for the COVERED subset are therefore 0 by definition. Original notes preserved below: Kyrgyzstan's primary hydropower operator, OJSC Electric Stations (esoo.kg), formerly published Toktogul reservoir storage volumes on its website, but this data was explicitly withdrawn from public access on 15 May 2025. The Kyrgyz Energy Minister subsequently denied accusations that the information was being kept secret. As of the evaluation date, current reservoir volumes are only disclosed ad hoc via press statements and official announcements — for example, figures cited by the Deputy Energy Minister in media reports. Kyrgyzhydromet (meteo.kg) publishes inflow forecasts and meteorological data but not reservoir storage volumes; its hydrological data is available only by paid contract. The DWR geoportal (gis.water.gov.kg) returned HTTP 403, indicating no public access. A bilateral hydrological data-sharing agreement signed between Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan on 9 February 2026 covers reservoir data for Toktogul, Kirov and Orto-Tokoy — but this exchange is government-to-government only, not public.

Coverage is 0 (no national reservoirs >10 hm³ with public data). Quality dimensions for the COVERED subset are therefore 0 by definition. Original notes preserved below: No REST API or machine-readable open data format exists for reservoir storage data. Kyrgyzhydromet is legally required by national law to charge for all hydrological data, with pricing fixed by the anti-monopoly agency; the 2021 World Bank Kyrgyzhydromet Peer Review Report explicitly noted that 'no open government data policies seem to be conceivable for the time being.' The data.gov.kg open data portal contains 1,403 datasets but none related to reservoir water levels or hydrometeorology. The dedicated water geoportal at gis.water.gov.kg is not publicly accessible (HTTP 403). The hydro.kgm.kg portal returned a connection refusal error. SIC ICWC cawater-info.net provides narrative yearbook data requiring paid subscription for detailed datasets. Registration requirements and fees are the norm, not the exception.

v1.3.0 capacity-weighted: coverage = round(100 × covered_capacity_hm³ / total_national_capacity_hm³). Kyrgyzstan's total reservoir capacity above 10 hm³ is approximately 22,000 Mm³, dominated overwhelmingly by Toktogul (~19,500 Mm³, ~89% of national capacity) with the rest distributed across the Naryn hydropower cascade (Kurpsay 370, Tash-Kumyr 140, Shamaldy-Say 39, Uch-Kurgan 56) plus Kirov (~550), Orto-Tokoy (~470), Papan (~260), Bazar-Korgon, Naiman, Karasuu. OJSC Electric Stations withdrew Toktogul data from public access on 15 May 2025; no other reservoir has ever had public storage data; the 9 February 2026 bilateral data-sharing agreement with Kazakhstan is government-to-government only. Covered capacity = 0 Mm³. Coverage = round(100 × 0 / 22,000) = 0.

Coverage is 0 (no national reservoirs >10 hm³ with public data). Quality dimensions for the COVERED subset are therefore 0 by definition. Original notes preserved below: No machine-readable historical time series of Toktogul storage volumes is publicly available for download. SIC ICWC's CAWATER database holds annual inflow, outflow and end-year storage data for Toktogul from 1991 to at least 2022, presented in narrative text within annual yearbook reports (e.g., cawater-info.net/yearbook/2022/) — but these are not structured downloads or APIs; they require manual transcription. Open.kg news reporting has reconstructed point-in-time April 1 snapshots for 2006–2015, sourced from Ministry of Energy statements. No formal national hydrological data archive is publicly accessible. The World Bank 2021 report found that Kyrgyzhydromet has data archives but no open digital access to them. A score of 20 reflects the availability of fragmentary annual figures via CAWATER-INFO yearbooks but the absence of any systematic, machine-readable series.

Coverage is 0 (no national reservoirs >10 hm³ with public data). Quality dimensions for the COVERED subset are therefore 0 by definition. Original notes preserved below: Prior to May 15, 2025, OJSC Electric Stations published Toktogul storage volumes periodically on its website (estimated monthly or more frequently). Since that date, no systematically updated public source exists. Current volume figures surface only via official press statements, typically at irregular intervals around seasonal milestones (start of irrigation season, start of winter heating season). Kyrgyzhydromet issues hydrological bulletins internally but these are not freely published. The SIC ICWC publishes ten-day Syr Darya basin reports on sic.icwc-aral.uz but access to current reservoir data requires subscription. A score of 10 reflects the effective collapse of public real-time or near-real-time data since mid-2025.

Coverage is 0 (no national reservoirs >10 hm³ with public data). Quality dimensions for the COVERED subset are therefore 0 by definition. Original notes preserved below: No documentation of measurement methodology for Toktogul or any other reservoir is publicly available from Kyrgyz authorities. The 2021 World Bank Peer Review Report on Kyrgyzhydromet found that automatic weather and hydrology stations have 'no additional downstream quality control procedures' and that data quality processes are not formally documented. Published figures for Toktogul storage (e.g., volume in km³) appear in government press statements without specifying sensor type, measurement elevation datum, hydrological model used for storage curve conversion, or uncertainty ranges. Academic studies have used satellite radar altimetry (ERS-2, Envisat, AltiKa) to independently reconstruct Toktogul levels since 1995, precisely because no authoritative ground-truth methodology is disclosed. The bilateral KZ-KG data sharing agreement signed in February 2026 includes 'joint runoff forecasting' but does not address public methodology disclosure.

All Kyrgyz government hydrological sources — Kyrgyzhydromet (meteo.kg), the DWR water geoportal, OJSC Electric Stations — operate primarily in Kyrgyz and Russian. The meteo.kg website has a translated English 'About Us' page but no English data content. News data reaches international audiences only through English-language regional media (Times of Central Asia, Eurasianet, AKIpress English edition) which re-report official statements. The CAWATER-INFO regional portal (cawater-info.net) publishes some yearbook content in English but Toktogul storage data is embedded in narrative paragraphs, not structured tables. SIC ICWC bulletins are sometimes released in English and Russian simultaneously. A score of 12 reflects that a motivated English-speaking researcher can locate fragmentary figures through regional sources but cannot access a functioning English-language data portal.