The Aral Sea, located on the border of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, was once the fourth largest lake in the world. In the 1960s, the rivers that fed the Aral were diverted to irrigate newly created cotton fields in the adjacent Kyzylkum Desert. By 1997, water volume had declined to 10% of its original size, and recent satellite images show its entire eastern basin dried up.Click on the image below to watch a Timelapse video of the city changing on our Instagram, or click here to watch on YouTube Shorts.—45.510578°, 58.757118°
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The Aral Sea, located on the border of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, was once the fourth largest lake in the world. In the 1960s, the rivers that fed the Aral were diverted to irrigate newly created cotton fields in the adjacent Kyzylkum Desert. By 1997, water volume had declined to 10% of its original size, and recent satellite images show its entire eastern basin dried up.Click on the image below to watch a Timelapse video of the city changing on our Instagram, or click here to watch on YouTube Shorts.—45.510578°, 58.757118°