Uzbekistan’s Aral Sea shrank from the world’s fourth-largest lake to near extinction: A €100 million plan aims to send water back

The Aral Sea, once among the world’s largest inland water bodies, is now one of the clearest examples of human impact on an ecosystem. Situated between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in Central Asia, the fourth-largest water body in the world has lost about 90 percent of its volume during the last half-century.

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