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Aral Sea Disaster The Aral Sea borders Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan and has two rivers running into it, the Amu Daria from
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Aral Sea Disaster The Aral Sea borders Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan and has two rivers running into it, the Amu Daria from Uzbekistan and the Syr Daria from Kazakhstan. It used to be the fourth largest sea in the world but it has been shrinking and now, in some places, the shoreline lies 80km from where it used to be. The main cause for this is the government; they did not care about the environment, they just saw it as an obstacle to be beaten. Their only aim was to make as much profit as possible, the area around the Aral Sea was mainly desert and had no economy so was making no profit. The government came up with a plan to grow cotton and rice. They built a dam across the river to collect water into reservoirs to be used for irrigating the crops. Cotton and rice are very thirsty plants so...
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