More than 70,000 villagers were evacuated on May 1 after the dam on the Sidaryo River broke at about 6 a.m. local time. “Go ahead and build it, but we hold to certain guarantees in accordance with these conventions that have been signed by you,” Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Komilov said in a televised appearance on July 5. Rogun Dam is an embankment dam under construction on the Vakhsh River in southern Tajikistan.The dam is situated 110 km from Dushanbe.It is one of the planned hydroelectric power plants of Vakhsh Cascade.. Construction of the dam began in the Soviet era, in 1976, but was abandoned after the collapse of the Soviet Union. More than 90,000 people have been evacuated after a dam failure in Uzbekistan. Nearly 100,000 people have been displaced in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan after an Uzbek dam burst, flooding thousands of homes and destroying agricultural fields. The flood is visible in these images, acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. Nearly 100,000 people have been displaced in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan after an Uzbek dam burst, flooding thousands of homes and destroying agricultural fields. Reservoirs created by dams not only suppress floods but also provide water for activities such as irrigation, human consumption, industrial use, aquaculture, and navigability. Earlier this month, Uzbekistan dropped its opposition to the Rogun Dam, a Tajik hydroelectric power plant which had been a potential powder-keg in the region. Turkey’s state-run aid agency on Monday delivered humanitarian aid to the victims of a dam collapse in Uzbekistan last month. Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) distributed 4,000 beds, quilts, pillows, and duvet covers and sets to the victims. The dam, on the Sirdaryo River in the Sirdaryo region, was completed in 2017 after seven years of work. The Sardoba Reservoir, located in southeastern Uzbekistan, suffered critical damage and breached, resulting in extensive flooding on May 1, 2020. Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan evacuated 70,000 and 5,400 people, respectively, from the Syr Darya river basin after the dam burst on the Uzbek side of the reservoir on May 1 just before 06:00 local time, when heavy rains and stormy winds caused the Sardoba dam wall to partially collapse. The flood is visible in these images, acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. A dam located at the Sardoba Reservoir burst late last week and led to significant flooding along the Syr Darya River near the Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan border. “Uzbekistan still uses methods and calculations devised in Soviet times when they build reservoirs. TASHKENT, Uzbekistan . After a dam collapsed in Uzbekistan this month, ... Uzbekistan: Dam collapse raises uncomfortable questions ... told Eurasianet that he believed it was unlikely that the Sardoba dam would have collapsed if it had been built competently. Tens of thousands evacuated after Uzbekistan dam bursts The wall of the Sardoba reservoir dam in eastern Uzbekistan burst early on Friday and at least 70,000 people have been evacuated. Sardoba Dam in Uzbekistan failed on May 1, leading to the immediate evacuation of 11,600 people downstream, multiple news agencies are reporting. Dam breach in Uzbekistan on May 1, 2020. A dam recently built has burst in Uzbekistan, sending water rushing toward villages on the floodplain downstream from the Sardoba Reservoir in the eastern region of Sidaryo. A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of water or underground streams. On May 1, 2020, part of an earth-filled dam broke along the Sardoba Reservoir in Uzbekistan, flooding the surrounding landscape. Hydropower is often used in conjunction with dams to generate electricity. On May 1, 2020, part of an earth-filled dam broke along the Sardoba Reservoir in Uzbekistan, flooding the surrounding landscape.