Aral Sea Disaster

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Aral Sea Disaster

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Once called the Jewel of Central Asia, the Aral Sea was the third largest lake in the world, and supported a unique ecosystem, and millions of people. But after irrigation projects in the 1960s began diverting water, the Aral Sea started to shrink. Today it is almost completely gone, replaced by desert, in one of the greatest ecological catastrophes of modern times. Sources https://www.columbia.edu/~tmt2120/introduction.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea https://growtheflowutah.org/2025/08/27/overview-of-the-aral-sea-disaster/ Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ship_in_the_Aral_Sea,_Mo‘ynoq.jpg History Dispatches is part of the Airwave Media Network: www.airwavemedia.com Interested in advertising on History Dispatches? Email us at advertising@airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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