I was surfing the web when I came across the story of the Aral Sea. In the space of 50 years, what had been the world's 4th largest fresh water lake has now shrunk by 90 percent due to the diversion of the rivers feeding the Aral Sea to cotton production. Towns that once were thriving fishing communities next to the Sea are now hundreds of kilometres away from what little water there is and are stranded in the middle of a dessert.
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