Central Asian countries are setting rivalries aside to build a giant hydroelectric plant originally planned in Soviet times. The Kambar-Ata-1 project on the Naryn River in Kyrgyzstan, which forms the Naryn-Syr-Darya cascade with the already-built Toktogul and the Kambar-Ata-2 plants, is a rare example of collaboration in the region that does not involve neighbouring superpowers Russia and China. The Kambar-Ata-1, which is in the early stages of construction, is expected to have a positive effect on power stations further downstream including Toktogul, which supplies 40 percent of Kyrgyzstan's electricity. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES