Aral Sea in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, was once the world's fourth sea. Today, most people do not even have heard of it. What is 68000 square kilometers fishing boom, is now a sea, or 10% of the original size, salt and pollution, to support fish. Large ocean is now considered the three lakes.
Aral Sea was once a popular holiday destination for family vacations, entertainment. It was once a thriving marine fish. There once was a swamp and the number of wild animal populations along the coast, the beach people. Aral Sea, and surrounding areas to live with is the case, are often in many places, Africa's biological diversity. When the sea began to die, people can no longer let them live in the fishing industry, lost their homes, their way of life, but this is not the worst.
Now, more than 150 kilometers of coastline in some areas has dropped to about 17 meters depth, climate change report. So what happened?
The two rivers flow into the Aral Sea Syr Darya and Amu Darya, the Nile water as much as possible so that they. Plan an intensive agricultural production systems changed all that. The way the Aral Sea began in 1960, when the water is diverted to unknown, irrigation of farmland. Cotton production is the name of the game. Millions of liters of water, which is usually said that the ocean is used to grow crops around the desert. Today, the two rivers, they are often dry completely discharged, they reached the Aral Sea.
In all of the crop cultivation, food, fruit, etc., is the largest cotton production industry. Cotton high demand, not only in the area, but the purpose of export. Cotton is known as "white gold."
If there is no new water to the Aral Sea, it began to shrink, more and more salt, the annual number of fish washed ashore, can not live in salty conditions. Shanghai has also become a center focused on pollution. This pollution comes from several sources, the first nuclear weapons test, but another loss of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
Any time, pollution increases, but human health problems, to do so. This is a special case, the concern is water pollution . It is difficult to determine whether You are a lot of health problems from pollution of water, of course, such statistics are difficult to prove, but Ye has been, mortality and health problems increase Zeng Changshuai the region of 60 Nian Dai Zi 20th century.
Not only is the fish and the people suffered. Extinction of plants and many animals. In the Bukhara deer has been booming region now has 500. Of course, some species of wild animals lost in the region, if not completely.
We can solve this problem?
Actions have been taken to restore some injuries, which proved that most of the canals and ditches is not good, how much water lost before, even to the field in order to take more water than is necessary. In 2003, the construction of the dam to help keep the water north of the ocean, which helps.
In the grand plan is to cause people who buy cotton, unless they know where it came from, you can say for sure, do not come from Uzbekistan. As a major cotton exporter, the greatest contribution.
The Aral Sea will never be as it is, has lost too much, but we can try to repair some damage. As China's population growth, we continue to demand things, but rarely take the time to see these things come from. Now is the time to see.
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