Pictures	Girls	Animals	Food	Videos	Celebs
Picdumps	Curiosities	Flash	Cars	Tests	Games

Izismile.com » Pictures » Dying Aral Sea (18 pics)

Dying Aral Sea (18 pics)

Posted in Pictures 12 Aug 2009 / 8885 views

Once the world's fourth-largest inland saline body of water, the Aral Sea has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s, after the rivers Amu Darya and Syr Darya that fed it were diverted by Soviet Union irrigation projects. By 2004, the sea had shrunk to 25% of its original surface area, and a nearly fivefold increase in salinity had killed most of its natural flora and fauna. The once prosperous fishing industry has been virtually destroyed, and former fishing towns along the original shores have become ship graveyards.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

Aral Sea from space, August 1985

18

Aral Sea from space, July 2009

DamnHot.net is just right with morning coffee.

Tags: Aral sea, dry, shrink, salinity, dead

Comments (11):

Show all comments

mm 2 year s ago

feel so sorry for the local people. so sad.

quote Reply

Fhilips 2 year s ago

OMG!! I new that its getting smaller but this is shock...there is nearly nothing left... n_wassat

quote Reply

35 2 year s ago

feel sorry for you that you know nothing about this

quote Reply

xuanfam 2 year s ago

I really didn't know anything about this..... :(

quote Reply

Tarzan 2 year s ago

what happened to fishes....

Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny.
If you see him without an erection, make him a sandwich :)

quote Reply

Puh-leeze 2 year s ago

OLD news, seen it a million times before. Come on, this is the fast generation. Onto something new please, no more Aral See boo-hoo-ing. Been there, done that years ago, this topic is old.

Hey, the entire San Juaquin Valley of California was a sea once and it's gone. There's no difference if man-made or nature-made, it's still the same end result.

(I know I'm gonna feel all your love after this remark)

quote Reply