“Water removal” how? Living things continue to excrete water; it does not get “removed” from a system except by acts of God. (That includes the Aral Sea.)
Go read up on the Ural Sea, just because water may not be removed from the planet, does not mean that moving it from one place or another does not have large and heavy impact on the local systems. Which I was quite clear about in all of my postings.
If I take all the food from one nation and move it to another, sure the total food supply hasn’t changed, but the impact of that is disasterous, particulary to the folks who live in the nation that now has no food.
Pretending that removing water from a local system can have no impact is idiotic on its face. Ever wonder why there are water rights in most of the western states that explicitly spell out how much water can be claimed, removed, taken or damned? The fact you want to try to argue that the entire system didn’t change, ergo no impact has occurred requires a level of willful ignorance that is mind boggling.