The Politics of Water in Central Asia
Panos
Absence
The lakes of the upstream nations feed several rivers, including the Syr Darya, which the Soviets diverted to irrigate cotton and other crops, thereby diminishing the height of the river by 20 feet in twenty years and turning the area around the Aral Sea, above, into a barren wasteland.
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