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Article: Rising from the dead.(World Watch Updates)(Aral Sea)(Brief Article)
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- World Watch
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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Between 1960 and 1990, the great Aral Sea of central Asia fell by more than 40 feet and lost two-thirds of its water, largely because the rivers that feed it were diverted upstream for irrigation. Now, the World Bank is financing a triage operation-construction of an eight-mile dike to restore the northern part of the sea ...
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