Wednesday, June 5, 2019

What Happened To The Aral Sea?



Who's we? This was due to just a few very bad decisions. 

3 comments:

  1. The Soviet Union diverted water for irrigation. The result was evaporation exceeded inflow, so the lake shrunk.

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  2. The Soviets rarely thought of such costs. They were desperate to make their system work and at every turn they failed. There's a lake not far from Chelyabinsk, if memory serves, that is almost entirely covered with concrete because of radioactive discharges starting under Stalin.

    I saw a special about both problems on You Tube a couple years ago. They interviewed people at what used to be a fishing port on the lake and showed how far you had to go to reach water.

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