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Once one of the world's largest inland lakes, the Aral Sea in Central Asia, has evaporated into the desert, its waters sucked dry by Soviet-era irrigation plans. KUOW is Seattle’s NPR news station.

Once one of the world's largest inland lakes, the Aral Sea in Central Asia, has evaporated into the desert, its waters sucked dry by Soviet-era irrigation plans.

a vital lifeline for the Aral Sea, to grow cotton in the desert. This decision had consequences you could see from space - a shrinking sea. DOSPANOV: (Through interpreter) People would wake up ...