The Aral Sea, located on the border of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan might not be dying as quickly as it once was and might even be coming back to life. Kazakhstan built a dam to divert the water of the Syr Darya river into the portion of the Aral Sea located in Kazakhstan. Thus, the fishing industry along with ecosystems based on the Aral Sea are seeing some signs of recovery. It's a great story of what was once the world's fourth largest lake (and now isn't even in the top ten). The Associated Press has a fantastic story on the rebirth of the Aral Sea.
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The rebirth of the Aral sea can only be done by returning the once diverted rivers for irrigation to their original course.Dams should be built thereafter to collect the flow of the rivers.Salinity is another important factor that should be addressed.
Sami Alamuddin
Lebanon
What a disaster of gargantuan proportion!! The former USSR communist regime who was directly responsible for this catastrophe should be held publicly accountable, the flow of the two rivers into the Aral Sea should be restored by the Russian Government by order of United Nations as a matter of urgency, indeed their legacy is seen far and wide throughout Asia. I am a descendant from Latvian parents residing in Australia and a trip to Latvia in 1994 highlighted the poor state of roads, infrastructure and social chaos the Soviets left on their departure from the Baltic States. Professor Jared Diamond’s Book ‘Collapse’ highlights how many former countries suffered under the various practices by former regimes and how we as a society can learn from our past mistakes, however do we as a society actually learn and correct past practices at the expense of economic pressures.I think that we as humans over the millennia have proven to be the worst kind of animal to have ever existed on our beautiful planet.