Central Asia's second-largest lake under threat - 23 Aug 09

It is Central Asia's second largest lake and home to more than three million people, but Kazakhstan's Lake Balkash is under threat.
The desert-locked sea is shrinking due to over-irrigation, caused in part by industrial neighbours such as China.

Many are concerned it could suffer the same fate as the Aral Sea, and eventually disappear.

Al Jazeera's Robin Forestier-Walker travelled with a team of scientists to Lake Balkhash - to find out why history could be about to repeat itself.

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