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 Stories About: Aral Sea AND desertification AND rivers and watersheds AND water pollution
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Sea Ya!
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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 ... |
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| Topics: Aral Sea, desertification, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics) |
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