Postcard from Kazakhstan: The Aral Sea

(10m26s) Short documentary on the Soviet-induced ecological nightmare of the shrinking Aral Sea, and new hope for a small part of it to be saved. If you've seen those surreal pictures of rusted ships sitting in the middle of the desert, that's this.
Farhad2000says...

I would disagree that it's the Soviet's fault entirely, the Uzbek goverment has expanded and used the same inefficient water irrigation system for the last 15 years without giving a damn about the ecological and environmental effects, that is sapping the supplementary Amur Darya and Ser Darya rivers that once feed the Aral.

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