Aral Sea Catastrophe

I strongly disagree at the fact that we are killing mother nature....Earth will always repair itself....we are only killing ourselves.....

now that's food for thought

The Russian stole their sea!

..i'm shocked.. it's the biggest ecological catastrophy of mankind..
and all was about money.. like someone said..we are destroing all that mother nature gave us.. we are the cause of her slow death..

it's shocking how the desert-looking landscape used to be the seabed .
SIGHS.
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Honestly, there is no way that any kind of plan would work. Right now, all anyone sees is ungodly sums of money to redo the canals, fix the irrigation system, charge for and clean the water, undo the cotton monoculture, and have all affected nations actually agree on a water sharing plan.
What they don't realize or want to address is that the environmental costs in the future will far outweigh the current cost of fixing their entire agricultural way of life.

No, the Aral Sea is a saltwater lake.
If you're talking about the water from the dike, then yes, the water flowing INTO the lake is freshwater.

Today I watched a photo from a NASA satelitte. The Eastern basin of The South Aral Sea is no longer water. It looks like wet salt. This was predicted to happen in 2015...2020 and not on July 2nd 2009! The sea is evaporating faster then predicted. I can't stop thinking about the people in the area and the remaining sea. I just hope that in north the dike will be extended like it's promised.

They are building the extended dam. At least one country in the affected area that has the oil money and World Bank help is doing something to fix that nightmare. I believe I read that everything will be done in 2010 and by the, the northern edge of the NAS will be back to pre-1960 levels.
However one can only imagine what KZ would think after spending huge sums of money to fix the NAS only to be nailed by the environmental destruction in the south.