Due to irrigation, this sea in Kazakhstan & Uzbekistan has shrunk by about 40% since the 1960s
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World of Change: Shrinking Aral Sea : Feature Articles  A massive irrigation project has devastated the Aral Sea over the past 50 years. ... In the 1960s, the Soviet Union undertook a major water diversion project on the arid plains of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. The region's two major ... time period. The differences in water color are due to changes in sediment.
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The Aral Sea Crisis  In the last 60+ years the Aral Sea has suffered irreparable damage from an unnatural ... Asia, between the Southern part of Kazakhstan and Northern Uzbekistan. ... in the 1960s to divert those rivers so that they could irrigate the desert region ... growth, account for dramatic consequences since the canals have been dug.
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How the Soviet Union Created Central Asia's Worst Environmental ...  Oct 3, 2014 ... The Aral Sea, which is actually classified as a lake, has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s following Soviet irrigation efforts. The lake, which lies between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, began suffering its current fate due to a ... Aral Sea, was a Soviet biological weapons testing site for almost 40 years.
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The Aral Sea Crisis  In the last 60+ years the Aral Sea has suffered irreparable damage from an ... and 1.2 to 2.4 million in Kazakhstan (all within the sea-basin limits). ... In Uzbekistan, a major cotton producer and water consumer, 41 percent of ... Consumes large amounts of water in furrow irrigation structure; Requires more labor force due to...
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Aral Sea - Wikipedia  The Aral Sea was an endorheic lake lying between Kazakhstan (Aktobe and Kyzylorda ... The Aral Sea drainage basin encompasses Uzbekistan and parts of ... since the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet irrigation projects. ... The shrinking of the Aral Sea has been called "one of the planet's worst...
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Caspian Sea - Wikipedia  1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. Unlike the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, towards the end of the 16th century the Caspian Sea was still not well explored and mapped. 1570 map by Ferno Vaz Dourado. The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed inland body of water on Earth by area, variously ... The Iranian city of Qazvin shares the root of its name with that of the sea.
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Biggest Lakes in the World Under Pressure From Human and ...  Jun 3, 2015 ... Lake Urmia, a vast salt lake in Iran, is shrinking dramatically due to water .... Iran is constructing dams to supply expanding agricultural fields that siphon ... The Aral Sea, once the fourth largest lake in the world, has been shrinking ... Over the second half of the 20th century, the problem also emerged in...
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Caspian Sea | sea, Eurasia | Britannica.com  Jan 6, 2016 ... World's largest inland body of water. It lies ... km)larger than the area of Japanand its surface lies some 90 feet (27 metres) below sea level.
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Three stages in the history of land reclamation in the Netherlands  Over many centuries the Dutch have fought against this loss of land. ... Around 3000 BC the rate of sea level rise slowed, allowing the coastal dunes to form. ... In the area just north of the city of Amsterdam peat was drained in parallel ..... sluices in the dam, the Zuiderzee would turn into a freshwater lake  to be called the...
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Caspian Sea - Wikipedia  The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed inland body of water on Earth by area, variously ... The Iranian city of Qazvin shares the root of its name with that of the sea. ... During warm and dry climatic periods, the landlocked sea almost dried up, ... The Garabogazkl Bay is the saline eastern inlet of the Caspian, which is part of...
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History of Central Asia - Wikipedia  The history of Central Asia has been determined primarily by the area's climate and geography. The aridity of the region makes agriculture difficult and distance from the sea cut it off from much trade. Thus, few major cities developed in the region. Nomadic horse peoples of the steppe dominated the area for millennia. ... With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, five Central Asian countries...
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jeopardy/1781_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  WORLD OF WATER | In 1998 the water supply was threatened by mercury in Russia's huge Bratsk "holding" one of these | a reservoir. right: Paul. Wrong:.
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Utah's Great Salt Lake Is Shrinking, And Scientists Say We're To ...  Mar 9, 2016 ... A team of researchers in Utah recently wrote a paper detailing how the Great Salt Lake has been slowly drying up for the past century and a...
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Earth and Geography - 9 | Britannica.com  Results 701 - 800 of 800 ... The most familiar are the periodic variations in sea level on Earth that ... The river flows for 200 miles (320 km) south and southeast through... .... and the principal waterway of western Russia and the historic cradle of the Russian state. ... Weser River major river of western Germany that serves as an...
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XI. The 'Power of Water' in a Divided Central Asia (PDF Download ...  Aug 5, 2016 ... These feed the Aral Sea, previously the fourth largest inland fresh (actually brackish) water reservoir in the world. ... as Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan share common borders. .... The 'Power of Water' in a Divided Central Asia ... of employment, especially in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and.
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BBC News - Waiting for the sea  Feb 25, 2015 ... Fishing ports suddenly found themselves in a desert. But in one ... The Aral Sea, in Central Asia, used to be the fourth largest lake in the world, after the Caspian Sea, and Lakes Superior and Victoria. ... These big ships could not reach shallow docks when the sea started shrinking. ... But the rain stopped.
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"In every drop of water there is a grain of gold." (Uzbek proverb) - CSS  stan, new irrigation technologies were introduced and cotton was cultivated on a larger scale ... ment in the Aral Sea basin is responsible for the decline in agricultural ... Central Asia is a developing region, characterized by a high share in .... low quantities is possible from November to March in the north and from January to.
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Climate Change  Seas Are Now So High it Only Takes a King Tide to  Oct 19, 2016 ... One that few people noticed before human-forced climate change began to ... we would not see the flooding from these tides that is now apparent today. ..... Btw (RS knows this, I know)- the complement of spring tides are neap tides. ..... In the East, it's sea level rise, extreme precip events, and related...
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History of Kazakhstan - Wikipedia  Kazakhstan, the largest country of the Eurasian Steppe, has been a historical "crossroads" and ... The future Kazakhstan was absorbed into the Turkic Kaganate and ... In the 13th century Kazakhstan was under the dominion of the Mongol Empire, .... Kazakh leadership; the three zhuzes were incorporated one by one into the...
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Jeopary Questions page 1290 - WOMEN IN HISTORY - TriviaBistro ...  WORLD GEOGRAPHY: Uzbekistan shares the inland Aral Sea with this neighboring "Stan" to the north  THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH: On a road map the M in M1 or...