Ecological Problems of the Aral Sea

Ecological Problems of the Aral Sea  
Created by: Eshkeev Tanat 11-st grade  
Since the very beginning of its existence, the human being has been developing.  It has never stopped, and it never will.  During the last couple of centuries it has been developing very aggressively, and it has reached tremendous achievements in all fields.  
Unfortunately mankind has achieved tremendous success in polluting its environment also. Finally, the humanity started paying more attention to what surrounds it.  It started thinking about the future .  
Currently, humanity has plenty of global environmental problems that it has to take care of now.  Desiccation of the Aral Sea is one of the items on the list.  The Aral Sea , is located in southwestern Kazakstan and northwestern Uzbekistan, near the Caspian Sea.  The Aral Sea is still listed as the fourth largest lake in the world.  But the statistic might change.  
The initial reason for the Aral’s decline is the fact that Soviet planners diverted water from Aral’s two big feeding rivers (Amu Darya and Syr Darya) into cotton fields in the territory of Uzbekistan…  
Because of this irrigation, the sea began to go down. Unwise use of water has led to the current state of the Aral Sea. 
  
The disappearance of the sea as a part of the ecosystem is just one problem that is followed by hundreds of subsequent problems.  One of them has already risen… Now a ton of salt cover the former bed of the Aral Sea. The wind blows the salt dust for thousands of kilometers. As a result of this, trees do not bear fruits any more…  
The situation on the Aral Sea has an influence on everything that is around it… Save the Aral Sea!