Once the world's fourth-largest saline body of water with an area of 68,000 km2, the Aral Sea has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s, after the rivers Amu Darya and Syr Darya that fed it were diverted by Soviet Union irrigation projects. By 2004, the sea had shrunk to 25% of its original...
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Once the world's fourth-largest saline body of water with an area of 68,000 km2, the Aral Sea has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s, after the rivers Amu Darya and Syr Darya that fed it were diverted by Soviet Union irrigation projects. By 2004, the sea had shrunk to 25% of its original surface area, and a nearly fivefold increase in salinity had killed most of its natural flora and fauna. By 2007 it had declined to 10% of its original size, splitting into three separate lakes, two of which are too salty to support fish. The once prosperous fishing industry has been virtually destroyed, and former fishing towns along the original shores have become ship graveyards.With this collapse has come unemployment and economic hardship.

The Aral Sea is also heavily polluted, largely as the result of weapons testing, industrial projects, pesticides and fertilizer runoff. Wind-blown salt from the dried seabed damages crops, and polluted drinking water and salt- and dust-laden air cause serious public health problems in the Aral Sea region. The retreat of the sea has reportedly also caused local climate change, with summers becoming hotter and drier, and winters colder and longer.
The plight of the Aral Sea is frequently described as an environmental catastrophe.

ASF( Aral Sea Foundation ) is taking all possible steps to address the problem and help people who were directly affected from the results of disappearing sea.
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ASF- Aral Sea Foundation:
• Planting trees on dried out sea shore which prevents salts from spreading
• Delivers clean water to people who don’t have access to it
• Provides affected families with necessary medications
• Working with all interested counterparts in...
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ASF- Aral Sea Foundation:
• Planting trees on dried out sea shore which prevents salts from spreading
• Delivers clean water to people who don’t have access to it
• Provides affected families with necessary medications
• Working with all interested counterparts in developing new solutions
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ASF- Aral Sea Foundation welcomes youth , we believe that Aral Sea’s issue is global issue as well, it actually affecting everyone on our planet, salts from dried out surface are spreading all over the world by millions of tons every year , salts reaching as far as Arctic causing ice melting...
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ASF- Aral Sea Foundation welcomes youth , we believe that Aral Sea’s issue is global issue as well, it actually affecting everyone on our planet, salts from dried out surface are spreading all over the world by millions of tons every year , salts reaching as far as Arctic causing ice melting process . Aral Sea is significant cause of the Global Warming.
Please join us to help more people know about Aral Sea!
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