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 ...

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.

"For the first time in modern history, the eastern basin of the South Aral Sea has completely dried," NASA says, citing satellite photos from 2000 and 2014. Accessibility links.

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 ...

Completed in 2005, the dam was basically a death sentence for the southern Aral Sea, which was judged to be beyond saving. All of the water flowing into the desert basin from the Syr Darya now ...

NASA data find some hope for water in Aral Sea basin. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 1, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2014 / 02 / 140214143529.htm. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

"For the first time in modern history, the eastern basin of the South Aral Sea has completely dried," NASA says, citing satellite photos from 2000 and 2014. Search Query Show Search.