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Aral Sea - Britannica Concise
More on 'Aral Sea' from the 32 Volume Encyclopædia Britannica : Aral Sea - a once-large saltwater lake straddling the boundary between Kazakhstan to the north and Uzbekistan to the south.
The shallow Aral Sea was formerly the world's fourth largest body of inland water.
It nestles in the climatically inhospitable heart of Central Asia, to the east of the Caspian Sea.
The Aral Sea is of great interest and increasing concern to scientists because of the remarkable ...
Tethys Sea - former tropical body of salt water that separated the supercontinent of Laurasia in the north from Gondwana in the south during much of the Mesozoic Era (251 to 65.5 million years ago).
Another, smaller desert in Kazakhstan near the Aral Sea is called the Aral Karakum.
Ustyurt Plateau - plateau in Uzbekistan and Kazakstan, lying between the Aral Sea and the Amu Darya (river) delta in the east and the Mangyshlak (Tupqarghan) Plateau and the Kara-Bogaz-Gol (Garabogazkol; an inlet of the Caspian Sea) in the west.
Uzbekistan - Disastrous depletion of the flow of the two historic rivers-the Syr Darya and Amu Darya-has brought rapid change in the Aral Sea and greatly altered the delta of the Amu Darya.

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Where is the Aral Sea? The water that serveth all that country is .
cause it falleth not into the Caspian Sea as it hath done .
The background The Aral Sea map Millions of years ago, the northwestern part of Uzbekistan and southern Kazakhstan were covered by a massive inland sea.
One of the remnants of the ancient sea was the Aral Sea , the fourth largest inland body of water in the world.
The Aral is an inland salt-water sea with no outlet.
The fresh water from these two rivers held the Aral's water and salt levels in perfect balance.
Government officials ordered the additional amount of needed water to be taken from the two rivers that feed the Aral Sea.
During the next 30 years, the Aral Sea experienced a severe drop in water level, its shoreline receded, and its salt content increased.
The marine environment became hostile to the sea life in it, killing the plants and animals.
When the Tahaitash Dam was built on the Amu Darya near the city of Nukus , there was no water left in the riverbed to flow to the Aral Sea, hundreds of kilometres away.
To the surprise of the inhabitants of Muynak , the Aral Sea began to shrink.
At first, they assumed it was a temporary condition and dredged a canal to the receding shore so boats could continue to ply the sea and still dock at the wharves.

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The Aral Sea crisis has offered a safe issue-area in which to exert U.S.
Effectively mitigating the Aral Sea crisis in Central Asia has proven more difficult than originally conceived by U.S.
government has directed its activities toward fostering regional cooperation over freshwater resources in the Aral Sea Basin as a means to achieve broader regional stability.
Although the desiccation of the Aral Sea was not the worst problem facing the Central Asian states, it had a name that could attract aid.
The Aral Sea was once the fourth largest lake in the world, but between 1960 and 1990, the Aral Sea slipped to sixth place.
Due to policies that gave preference to irrigation for agriculture, Soviet planners withdrew unprecedented amounts of water from the two main rivers feeding the Aral Sea—the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya—in order to cultivate cotton.
As a result of these policies, the Aral Sea shrank to half its original size.
With independence, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan needed to cooperate to share these transboundary rivers while mitigating the Aral Sea crisis..
government through its Agency for International Development (AID) chose to tackle the Aral Sea problem as the precursor to its energy program in the Caspian Basin.

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