“Shocking Disaster” for Aral Sea
April 6, 2010 – 4:12 pmOne of the four largest lakes in the world has marked ‘one of the planet’s worst environmental disasters’ because of its slowly shrunken size which is an excruciating 90 percent loss from the original size of its sea bed.
Its evaporation left a windy salted sand which caused jobless fishermen and stranded fishing boats and ships on land. It poorly exhibits a robust land which is dry and lifeless, compared to its condition in 1989.
The shrunken size of the Aral seas was caused by diverting the rivers that once were freely flowing towards the sea into the Soviet Union irrigation projects.
U.N. Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon toured the sea during visit to the five countries of former Soviet Central Asia which included a touchdown in Muynak, Uzbekistan. This was once a town on shore of the “big sea” and now can be described with gray dead sands and hot winds along with the display of camels near the hulks of stranded ships.
Ban was deeply concerned about this and is calling to set aside all rivalries between the surrounding countries and join him into repairing the damages and regain what was lost in the shrunken sea. He promises the United Nations’ support for this project and will continue to help relive the Aral Sea.
There is an ongoing project to replenish the northern part of Aral Sea where a dam is being constructed so as to rise the water level and to house the living sea creatures including marine life to help boost the fish economy of the people in Uzbekistan.
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