leftybooru - #7779: 1989 2003 2009 aral_sea capitalism comparison desert drought ecology environment kazakhstan lake privatization russia russian_federation soviet_union then_and_now uzbekistan

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Anonymous 2018-05-18 18:11:44 No.157 [Reply]

this is the Aral Sea. In the 1960s, Soviet researchers predicted the complete evaporation of the body of water, and a river used to irrigate farmland had the excess water siphoned into the lake. This was, however, expensive, and during the privitisations (and subsequent economic catastrophe) of the 1980s, the plan was abandoned. After Kazakhstan seceded, ultra-intensive cotton farming practices and infrastructure mismanagement (most water running through irrigation to the farms evaporated on the way there) accelerated the shrinkage. Most of the former Aral Sea is a desert.

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