The purpose of the research is to comprehend, on the basis of the ideological aspect, the reasons that have developed in the fi eld of nature management, in particular, in the fi eld of agricultural reclamation, based on the doctrine of Dokuchaev-Williams-Kostyakov on the genesis and reclamation of soils as a special natural formation. To identify the cause of the environmental-reclamation crisis on irrigated lands of Central Asia and South Kazakhstan. On the basis of general reasoning, which follows from the cognitive attitude to the surrounding reality and focused on one value,that is, at any cost to get a «record» harvest from crops. As a result, in areas of insuffi cient moisture for the regulation and management of hydrological regimes of groundwater and surface water in rice systems, for the fi rst time in world practice, irrigation and drainage (collector-drainage) systems were designed in parallel, contrary to the principles of natural analogy and integration of knowledge, where sovereign human interests prevailed over the sovereign «interests» of nature. In these conditions, scientists of amelioration science faced a very diffi cult task, that is, ensuring high productivity of agricultural crops or soil-reclamation stability of hydro-agrolandscape systems, which, based on the level of thinking activity, formed various positions and confl icts, based on the laws of the dialectic «denial of denial», expressing continuity, the spiral nature of development, the connection between the new and the old, a kind of repetition at the highest stage of development of some properties of a number of lower stages, justifi es the progressive nature of development, did not see their need to build objects of a new type – activity-natural systems that consider anthropogenic and natural processes in a single set. At the same time, world experience shows that the new knowledge gained on the irrigation of rice as an aquatic and terrestrial crop by surface irrigation along the furrow, sprinkling and drip irrigation in combination with doses of macrofertilizers, made it possible to formulate a scientifi c hypothesis for cost-eff ective and environmentally safe management of the soil water regime, providing purposeful regulation of the soil-forming process.