Kazakhstan’s efforts to restore the North Aral Sea have yielded significant results, with the water volume increasing by 42% to 27 billion cubic meters. The
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
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.