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Aral Be There Aral Sea coming back to life after decades of draining damage		07 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Aral Be There Aral Sea coming back to life after decades of draining damage The dramatic diminution and pollution of Central Asia's Aral Sea is one of the 20th century's most stunning eco-disasters -- but its restoration may become an eco-miracle of the 21st. Since the World Bank's $85.8 million Kok-Aral Dam project began in 2001, the Aral has regained millions of cubic feet of water. Long-abandoned v ...
Topics: Aral Sea, environmental restoration, news, World Bank (all these topics)

Is the Sea Half-empty or Half-full? Kazakh Dam Could Save Northern Aral Sea, But Kill Southern Portion		29 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Is the Sea Half-empty or Half-full? Kazakh Dam Could Save Northern Aral Sea, But Kill Southern Portion A seven-mile dam now under construction could mean total devastation for a large southern section of the already beleaguered Aral Sea, which straddles the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in Central Asia. Once the world's fourth largest inland sea, the Aral has lost half its depth and 90 percent of its volume o ...
Topics: Aral Sea, dams, energy, Kazakhstan (all these topics)

Seasick		23 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Seasick Once the fourth largest inland sea in the world, Central Asia's Aral Sea is drying up rapidly and is likely to all but disappear in as few as 15 years, according to a new study by Moscow's Shirshov Institute of Oceanology. Since the 1960s, the sea has been depleted by the damming of the main rivers that feed it; it is now just a quarter of the size it was a half-century ago and has broken into two parts, the No ...
Topics: Aral Sea, Asia, food and agriculture (all these topics)

Sea Ya!		09 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Sea Ya! Central Asia's Aral Sea, which used to be the world's fourth-largest lake, has shrunk so dramatically that it has split into two separate bodies of water. The two rivers that feed it were diverted in the 1960s to water cotton fields; now just a trickle reaches the sea, and much of that is contaminated by pesticides and fertilizers. As the sea has receded, villages and small cities ...
Topics: Aral Sea, desertification, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Lake It or Not		12 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Lake It or Not Overuse and pollution of the world's lakes threaten nearly 1 billion people who depend on lake water for fishing, irrigation, transportation, tourism, sewage, and drinking water, global experts said during an international conference on lake management being held this week in Japan. More than half of the world's lakes and reservoirs are alr ...
Topics: Africa, Aral Sea, Florida, Great Lakes, Lake Victoria, lakes, North America, pollution and waste (all these topics)

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