ALMATY, May 22 (Xinhua) -- Kazakhstan has earmarked 214.6 billion tenge (about 455 million U.S. dollars) in investment subsidies for water-saving measures in 2026-2028, four times the amount allocated in the previous three-year period, the Kazinform news agency reported Friday.

In 2025, Kazakhstan saved 874 million cubic meters of irrigation water through the use of water-saving technologies on 543,500 hectares of land, Kazinform said, citing the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation.

The Kazakh government plans to expand the use of water-saving technologies to 1.3 million hectares by 2030, which is expected to save 2.2 billion cubic meters of water annually, the report said.

Under Kazakhstan's new Water Code, industrial enterprises are also required to gradually transition to water recycling and reuse systems within seven years, which would raise the share of reused water in industry to 28 percent, according to the report. ■