https://padlet.com/rmallek/i7qgftcj2stxi315 Made with a dash of wit en-us 2022-04-19 09:17:22 UTC 2023-06-13 09:23:43 UTC hello@padlet.com Yaqoub_Alenezi https://padlet.com/rmallek/i7qgftcj2stxi315/wish/2622106197 The Aral Sea located on the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistanwas, once the fourth-largest lake in the world. But in the 1960s, the Soviet Union diverted two major rivers to irrigate farmland, cutting off the inland sea from its source. The Aral Sea has been slowly disappearing ever since]]> 2023-06-13 09:16:38 UTC https://padlet.com/rmallek/i7qgftcj2stxi315/wish/2622106197 Yaqoub_Alenezi https://padlet.com/rmallek/i7qgftcj2stxi315/wish/2622106282 2023-06-13 09:16:45 UTC https://padlet.com/rmallek/i7qgftcj2stxi315/wish/2622106282 b00098534 https://padlet.com/rmallek/i7qgftcj2stxi315/wish/2622106582 In 1959, officials in the Soviet Union decided to divert river flows feeding the Aral Sea to the deserts of Central Asia, where the water irrigated farms supplying a growing cotton industry. ]]> 2023-06-13 09:17:08 UTC https://padlet.com/rmallek/i7qgftcj2stxi315/wish/2622106582 https://padlet.com/rmallek/i7qgftcj2stxi315/wish/2622111790 It was once the world's fourth largest body of inland water but has shrunk to a fraction of its former size because of the diversion of its inflowing rivers for agricultural irrigation. ]]> 2023-06-13 09:23:43 UTC https://padlet.com/rmallek/i7qgftcj2stxi315/wish/2622111790