The Aral Sea is a shallow, large brackish lake concealed in remote deserts between two countries.
The Aral Sea gets its water from two main rivers, and this has been supposedly for thousands of years. The water volume gets balanced by a natural equilibrium between inflow and evaporation.
It is said that the Aral Sea used to be as huge as West Virginia and had more water than Lake Huron and Lake Erie. In the 1960s, it continued to shrink and had vastly dried up by the 2010s.
The name “Aral sea”...
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