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UN's Ban Calls Aral Sea 'Shocking Disaster'
AP via Yahoo News ^
| 4 April 2010
| Jim Heintz
Posted on 04/04/2010 11:23:49 AM PDT by edpc
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To: Abathar
Demon in the Freezer is still a riveting read.
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posted on
04/04/2010 1:05:51 PM PDT
by
STD
(Sorry Islam-Obama's Mounted the Red Horse Now)
To: Roccus
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posted on
04/04/2010 1:06:51 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Duncan Hunter, Jim DeMint, Michelle Bachman, ...)
To: edpc
Aral Sea is used to be one of the largest lake in the world. All I hear is silence about this from the far left. Oh wait, it happened during the former Soviet Union. Some of the worst pollution happened in the Soviet Union.
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posted on
04/04/2010 1:14:37 PM PDT
by
Ptarmigan
(Remember The Great Ptarmigan/Rabbit War!)
To: Roccus
I thought that it was a fresh water lake.
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posted on
04/04/2010 1:22:54 PM PDT
by
Scotsman will be Free
(11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
To: Scotsman will be Free
Yes, however there are salts that come in from the feeder rivers. When a lake evaporates, the salts remain. The Bonneville Salt Flats are an example.
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posted on
04/04/2010 1:38:00 PM PDT
by
Roccus
(......and then there were none.)
To: edpc
But hey, look on the bright side: Uzbekistan did benefit from being a major exporter of cotton. And here is the question. If you can afford the project, what plan should you choose:
- Change the flow of rivers, irrigate dry lands, create agricultural jobs, produce useful things, live better life.
- Or leave rivers as they are; the fresh river water will be polluted with salts and will uselessly evaporate. Nobody benefits.
So the question is: why the Aral Sea needs to be saved? Surely not for the few fishes that lived in that tiny patch of water.
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posted on
04/04/2010 2:28:16 PM PDT
by
Greysard
To: edpc
what next? reverse man cause continental drift?
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posted on
04/04/2010 2:37:18 PM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: Greysard
If folks want to see something similiar in the United States, look at the Owens Valley, in California.
Owens Valley is where Los Angeles’s drinking water originates. That valley used to be good productive farmland. The inhabitants sold the water rights to Los Angeles a long time ago.
That was a very stupid thing to do.
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posted on
04/04/2010 2:43:45 PM PDT
by
SatinDoll
(NO Foreign Nationals as our President!!)
To: Greysard
Nice to see someone post an intelligent and thoughtful comment..
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posted on
04/04/2010 3:58:59 PM PDT
by
Riodacat
(Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.)
To: Roccus
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posted on
04/05/2010 2:43:35 AM PDT
by
Scotsman will be Free
(11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
To: Greysard
It used to provide 1/6 of the total fish catch of the Soviet Union. Lenin started the first diversion of water out of the Aral Sea in order to eventually kill off the independent fishing industry and divert the locals onto state-owned farms, where they were easier to control, and where their institutional memory of private enterprise could more easily be removed. Our home-grown watermelon commies would do the same thing in a heartbeat.
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posted on
04/07/2010 2:06:47 PM PDT
by
SoDak
(bitter clinger)
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