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At a briefing at the Central Communications Service on 24 June, the digitalisation and automation of water resource management, including the operation of the Tasqyn system, were discussed. A journalist from the FBK asked questions about the accuracy of forecasts and the criteria for putting the system into commercial operation.

Travelers from the historical-geographical society 'Avalon' have discovered around a hundred saiga carcasses along a 40-kilometre stretch of steppe road. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources is preparing to continue culling saigas in 2026, citing a population of 5 million individuals.

At Lake Aidabol in the Zerenda district of the Akmola region, a mass fish die-off has been recorded. Specialists from the Yesil interregional basin fisheries inspection, the veterinary service, and the ecology department of the Akmola region have taken water samples and fish specimens for laboratory analysis. The causes of the die-off will be known after the tests.

Ministry of Agriculture has confirmed the export of grain under fictitious transactions and illegal bonus payments from the budget at the Karaganda Agricultural Experimental Station, subordinate to NANOC. This is the second episode of violations in the holding's structures in recent months — following publications about the Barayev Centre, over which the Bureau of Corruption Prevention received a pre-trial claim from its management.

Two specialised departments of the Aktobe region responded to the FBK’s enquiry about quarries in the Ilek river floodplain. A comprehensive assessment of the impact of sand extraction on the river’s hydrological regime has not been carried out, and the question of conducting such an assessment is only being considered by the regional akimat.