The UN Development Program\'s Work Plan for 2004-05 includes sending a group of advisers to Central Asia to help resolve a dispute between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan over water resources. The dispute between the two countries involves the water of the Chu and Talas rivers in northern Kyrgyzstan, which Kazakhstan needs for agriculture. Kyrgyzstan is demanding that the Kazakh side pay for the water, while Kazakhstan says the demand for payment is illegal. Such arguments are not unusual between Central Asian states, where agricultural development in the Soviet era was based on the principle that water for irrigation would go to the areas that needed it most in Moscow\'s judgment, without regard to republican borders. The governments of Sweden, Estonia, and Great Britain have promised to finance the group of UN advisers. Great Britain has been interested for several years now in helping the Central Asians solve their regional water-management problems. (centralasia.ru)