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Had no idea this was in the works!
Let’s hope they can recover this ecological disaster. This is awesome.
Fuck Russia for causing this mess in the first place.
What’s that entail exactly? Did someone leave their hose on overnight or something?
The Aral Sea was basically dried up by Soviet irrigation projects to enable growing cotton in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, so presumably just reducing the amount of water those divert would do the trick. Kazakhstan has built a dam between their part (the North Aral) and the Uzbek parts as well, though, because efforts to restore the North Aral were just spilling over into the other parts and evaporating
Great context. Normally rising sea levels are a bad thing.
