This article explores the role of forming ecological culture in the new conditions of developing Uzbekistan. Currently, Uzbekistan’s efforts to develop proposals for the rational use of water resources, providing clean drinking water, the treatment of household waste, the negative consequences of the Aral Sea problem and improving environmental legislation have a connection to the formation of a high ecological culture. One of the main factors in the formation of an active civic position is a rational attitude to the environment, the preservation of natural resources for future gene-rations in improving the ecological culture of the population.