The Aral Sea, once the fourth largest lake in the world, has lost over 90% of its volume over five decades due to Soviet irrigation policies that diverted its two feeding rivers for cotton cultivation, transforming the lake into the Aralkum Desert and causing severe environmental consequences including toxic dust storms reaching the Arctic.
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The Aral Sea Cannot Recover | FameFacts Daily #aralsea #desert #shortsAñadido:
One decision drained a sea.
The Aral Sea was once one of the largest lakes on Earth, a body of water so big it had its own fishing industry, ports, and regional climate.
In the 1960s, >> [music] >> Soviet planners diverted the two rivers that fed it to irrigate cotton fields, and the lake began losing water faster than any natural process could explain.
Over the next five decades, >> [music] >> the Aral Sea lost more than 90% of its volume. The shoreline retreated so far that former port cities ended up stranded 150 km from the water's edge.
The exposed lake bed is now the Aralkum desert, 60,000 sq km of salt and toxic sediment [music] that generates dust storms reaching as far as the Arctic.
The fourth largest lake in the world was turned into a desert by a single irrigation policy. It took 50 years, and it is not coming back.
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