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The Loss of the Aral Sea
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Robert Hicks Contemporary Geographical Issues The Loss of the Aral Sea Introduction There are two major environmental disasters in the recent history of the former Soviet Union; Chernobyl and the Aral Sea. In 1960 the Aral Sea was the world's fourth largest lake, but now due to irrigation demands the sea is only half its original size, it's predicted that by 2010 it will only be a third of its original size, also three times as salty. This has devastated millions and millions of people who have depended upon the lake for its fish, water, reed beds and transport. Since 1960 the level has decreased from 68,000 kmē to a predicted level of 21,058 kmē in 2010. The Aral Sea is situated among the deserts of central Asia, in south western Kazakhstan and north western Uzbekistan, near the Caspian Sea. The loss of the Aral Sea is both an amazing and tragic story, which...
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