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Dry As a Slightly Moist Bone
Aral Sea restoration project nets $126 million more from World Bank |
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10 Apr 2007 |
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| Dry As a Slightly Moist Bone Aral Sea restoration project nets $126 million more from World Bank When is a sea not a sea? When it's a desert. Over the last five decades, the inland Aral Sea -- which straddles the border of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan -- has shrunk to a fraction of its original size, thanks to Soviet policies that diverted its feeder rivers for farming. But a dam funded by the World Bank has beg ... |
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| Topics: desertification, Kazakhstan, news, Uzbekistan (all these topics) |
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