They make it sound like this just occured. It's been happening for decades due to the irrigation projects from the pre and post WWII Soviet projects. But hey, look on the bright side: Uzbekistan did benefit from being a major exporter of cotton.
We'll get stuck paying the tab for any proposed restoration project with money we don't have.
1 posted on
04/04/2010 11:23:50 AM PDT by
edpc
To: All
2 posted on
04/04/2010 11:24:57 AM PDT by
edpc
(Those Lefties just ain't right)
To: edpc
Absolutely agree with your post #1.
3 posted on
04/04/2010 11:27:24 AM PDT by
SpaceBar
To: edpc
The bad news is that Vozrozhdeniya Island is now connected to the mainland.
5 posted on
04/04/2010 11:42:45 AM PDT by
paddles
To: edpc
It can be reversed if they let the rivers fill it again, but that isn't going to happen in our lifetimes.
6 posted on
04/04/2010 11:43:35 AM PDT by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: edpc
It was not just over irrigation, right up on the northeast corner of what used to be the Aral sea is one of the Soviets nuc testing ranges.
To: edpc
9 posted on
04/04/2010 11:49:42 AM PDT by
egannacht
(Inalienable rights granted by...)
To: edpc
Basically another “stimulus plan” at work.
10 posted on
04/04/2010 11:53:34 AM PDT by
denydenydeny
("I'm sure this goes against everything you've been taught, but right and wrong do exist"-Dr House)
To: edpc
Won't the "melting" glaciers and polar ice caps take care of this?
sarc/
11 posted on
04/04/2010 12:01:50 PM PDT by
FlingWingFlyer
(Help! I've been Alinskyed by the Obamanoids and I can't get up!)
To: edpc
To: edpc
So frigging what!!! It was those wunnerful socialists that permited it. Now, everyone at the UN,,,squat and say ‘’what color??
14 posted on
04/04/2010 12:12:28 PM PDT by
Waco
(Kalifonia don't need no stenkin oil and no stenkin revenues)
To: edpc
So if you stop the influx of water into a lake, the lake dries up? Hooda thunkit?
15 posted on
04/04/2010 12:13:37 PM PDT by
gitmo
( The democRats drew first blood. It's our turn now.)
To: edpc
Leftists don’t really care about the environment. It just becomes a another tool for the revolution - used once and then thrown away.
To: edpc
The face of the earth changes whether man plays a part or not. I imagine that lake bottom is some very fertile soil. Grow crops on it.
17 posted on
04/04/2010 12:45:43 PM PDT by
TigersEye
(Duncan Hunter, Jim DeMint, Michelle Bachman, ...)
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.
26 posted on
04/04/2010 2:28:16 PM PDT by
Greysard
To: edpc
what next? reverse man cause continental drift?
27 posted on
04/04/2010 2:37:18 PM PDT by
longtermmemmory
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