Bringing life back to Asia's 'dead' sea

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Serik Duisenbayv was 17 when he first saw the Aral Sea.

"When I was born the sea wasn't in Aralsk, I had only heard about it from my parents and from history books," he told CNN.

"When I saw it for the first time I was very sad that people had had to live without the sea for almost 40 years. But now we have hope. Now the sea is only 50km from Aralsk and maybe one day the water will be in the old harbor once again."

The shrinking of the Aral Sea has been described as one of the world's most shocking man-made environmental disasters. The sea lost over 90 percent of its area after the rivers that fed it were diverted to irrigate cotton crops elsewhere in the arid region in the 1960s.

As the water retreated, the sea became too saline for fish to survive, killing off the people's livelihoods and, with it, their hope.

Bringing life back to Asia's 'dead' sea - CNN.com

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The shrinking of the Aral Sea has been described as one of the world's most shocking man-made environmental disasters.

lol, not again, man made disaster!

so lets find out who exactly these men were:

the Aral Sea has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet Union irrigation projects.

oh, now it is a bit clearer, it was the government that did this, and it seems some corporate interests lurking around, maybe also directly involved:

In 1948, a top-secret Soviet bioweapons laboratory was established on the island in the center of the Aral Sea which is now disputed territory between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The exact history, functions and current status of this facility have not yet been disclosed.

the Uzbek government and an international consortium consisting of state-run Uzbekneftegaz, LUKoil Overseas, Petronas, Korea National Oil Corporation, and China National Petroleum Corporation signed a production sharing agreement to explore and develop oil and gas fields in the Aral Sea

interesting, smells like GMO:

Using alternative cotton species that require less water

also, want water? pay for it! whats next, paying for the air you breathe:

Charging farmers to use the water from the rivers;

looks like some new-founded debt for these countries:

In January 1994, the countries of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan signed a deal to pledge 1% of their budgets to helping the sea recover.

By 2006, the World Bank's restoration projects,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_sea

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oh, now it is a bit clearer, it was the government that did this, and it seems some corporate interests lurking around, maybe also directly involved:

lol,not again,government made disaster

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Of course. Soviet geniouses had brilliant plan of planting stuff in the fking desert. So they just had to change flows of rivers a bit.

Consequence is Aral sea.

Great Plan for the Transformation of Nature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia