The
Aral Sea was once the world's fourth-largest saline
body of water. It has been steadily shrinking since
the 1960's, after the rivers that fed it were
diverted by Soviet Union irrigation projects. And
now it's almost gone leaving a desert full of old
shipwrecks.
And it had
already been starved of nearly 30 yrs. of
water by 1989
Really quite unreal
isn't it, you just saw the BOTTOM of the once fourth
largest salt water sea in the world.
