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History of Aral Sea


History of Aral Sea

The Aral Sea has two rivers that flow into it?Amu Darya and Sir Darya. The Soviet Union dug channals from both rivers for the cotton fields. This was the start of the disaster?starting around 1960, the Aral Sea started shrinking. Now it is far away from its former banks and still receding.

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