Aral Sea Disaster - article
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Uzbekistan: A dying sea, mafia rule, and toxic fish.
Interesting article from Aljazeera.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/featur ... 19386.html
Interesting article from Aljazeera.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/featur ... 19386.html
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Isn't there a danger of a similar situation in the Murray-Darling basin in Australia? Irrigation taking all the river water?
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It's called progress. Alan Clarke had shares.
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Same/same Colorado River in America. Doesn't even get to the Mexican border anymore. With big agro corporations like ConAgra in the US who line the pockets of politicians, ecology and health of the planet/country don't even factor into the money equations.
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Lakes and rivers are drying up, and even worse, underground water supplies are being wasted and polluted.Sailorman wrote:Same/same Colorado River in America. Doesn't even get to the Mexican border anymore. With big agro corporations like ConAgra in the US who line the pockets of politicians, ecology and health of the planet/country don't even factor into the money equations.
Frontpage article from the Independent on how underground water supplies or aquifers are under attack worldwide:
http://www.independent.co.uk/environmen ... 25188.html
The world’s largest underground aquifers – a source of fresh water for hundreds of millions of people — are being depleted at alarming rates, according to new NASA satellite data that provides the most detailed picture yet of vital water reserves hidden under the Earth’s surface.
Twenty-one of the world’s 37 largest aquifers — in locations from India and China to the United States and France — have passed their sustainability tipping points, meaning more water was removed than replaced during the decade-long study period, researchers announced Tuesday.
I thought I'd "switch" to beer as a sustainable drink but duh, no water, no beer. This is getting serious.
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I remember reading about this 40 + years ago on NatGeo. It was 50% gone then. California should hire these Russian engineers to remove the nasty Salton Sea.
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I first heard about this from a geologist I met in Tashkent nearly 2 decades back. He pointed out the devastation as we flew over the former sea, seems it has only gotten worse since.
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