The Aral Sea gets almost all its water from the Amu and Syr rivers. ... which could be attained with relatively reasonable irrigation improvements in the river’s drainage basin.

Aral Sea's Eastern Basin Is Dry for First Time in 600 Years. Once thriving, the vast Asian lake was drained for irrigation. By Brian Clark Howard. October 2, 2014 ...

By 1990, the Aral Sea had divided into northern and southern parts, prompting five Central Asian states to create the Aral Sea Basin Program, with the goal of eventually restoring the Aral Sea to near ...

Cotton production, irrigated by the basin’s two great rivers, increased steadily from the 1870s until the 1960s, when a vast new irrigation expansion drew off so much water that the Aral Sea began to ...

What a shrinking sea might teach us on life after environmental disaster. Sixty years ago, the Aral Sea began drying up, leaving salty, barren soil in its wake.

Aral Sea from space (Image: NASA) The environmental legacy of the Soviet Union President Tokayev of Kazakhstan has emphasised the need for decisive measures to effectively use the water resources ...

Credit: Depositphotos Prior to 1960, the Aral Sea was the fourth largest inland water reservoir in the planet, with a surface area of 66,900 square km. 1960 is a key date because it was the last ...

The Aral Sea in July — September 1989 (L) and on August 16, 2009 (R). Image obtained from the University of Maryland Global Land Cover Facility / Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer ...

Mr. Dreyer, an editor and writer, wrote from Muynak, Uzbekistan. Walking toward the shrinking remnants of what used to be the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan was like entering hell. All around was a desert ...