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The North Aral Sea Project's main initiative is the construction of a dam across the Berg Strait, a deep channel which connects the North Aral Sea to the South Aral Sea. The Kok-Aral Dam is 13 kilometres (8 miles) long and has capacity for over 29 cubic kilometres of water to be stored in the North Aral Sea, whilst allowing excess to overflow ...
Vozrozhdeniya was once a small island; it was only 200 square kilometres (77 sq mi) in the nineteenth century. [2] However, in the 1960s, the island began to grow in size as the Aral Sea began drying up as the Soviet Union dammed its feeder rivers for agricultural projects. [3] The shrinkage of the Aral continued and accelerated over time, and ...
The severely reduced inflow caused the water level in the Aral Sea to drop. While the North Aral Sea rose due to the Dike Kokaral, the South Aral Sea kept dropping, thus expanding the size of the desert, until 2010, when the South Aral Sea was partly reflooded. The water level of the South Aral Sea then began to drop again, this time more severely.
September 4, 2016 at 12:51 PM. Shocking Satellite Images Show Aral Sea Has Almost Disappeared. The Aral Sea in central Asia used to be one of the world's largest lakes. NASA explains, "In the ...
Amu Darya. Coordinates: 44°06′30″N 59°40′52″E. Amu Darya. Oxus, Wehrōd, Amu River. Looking at the Amu Darya from Turkmenistan. Map of area around the Aral Sea. Aral Sea boundaries are c. 2008. The Amu Darya drainage basin is in orange, and the Syr Darya basin in yellow. Etymology.
In the middle of the vast desert that surrounds what is left of the Aral Sea, graves stand as stark reminders — of communities that once thrived, of the powerful body of water that teemed with ...
The Syr Darya drainage basin is in yellow, and the Amu Darya basin in orange. The Syr Darya / ˌsɪər ˈdɑːrjə / SEER-DAR-yə, [a][b] historically known as the Jaxartes (/ dʒækˈsɑːrtiːz / jak-SAR-teez, Ancient Greek: Ἰαξάρτης), is a river in Central Asia. The name, which is Persian, literally means Syr Sea or Syr River.
By 2006, the Aral Sea has separated into two separate bodies of water. In 2009, the right portion of the lake is virtually dry but makes a short-lived comeback in 2010 and 2011. The right half of ...