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| Aral' Sea, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan: The Aral' Sea has diminished dramatically since the 1950's, when ambitious agricultural water-diversion projects began along the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers. By 1990, the surface area of the Aral' had decreased by more than 50 percent, and the salinity had tripled since 1960, when the sea covered about 68,000 square kilometers. The most noticeable changes observed from orbit betweeen January, 1998 and September, 2000 have been the expansion of the large north-trending island, the decrease in total water area, and the isolation of the smaller northern water body. |
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