Abstract
Animal husbandry is a high-priority industry for national food security, as it covers the market needs for dairy and meat products.Its further advancement requires highly productive grazing land rich in water and armed with state-of-the-art engineering infrastructure.In the West Kazakhstan region, grazing land is mainly watered from dug and driven wells, dugout ponds, canals, water pipes, lakes, and rivers.This paper analyzes the potential and utilization of grazing land in different landscapes of the West Kazakhstan region.The researchers have monitored the pasture water sources, the hydrology of surface water sources, the utilization rate of underground water sources within the dry steppes and semi-arid areas of the West Kazakhstan region; the monitoring results are presented herein.The paper also dwells upon the hydrochemical lab tests of water sampled from the sources the free-range locations are watered from.