This ecological disaster is draining local economies of their livelihoods and wiping out fishing industries that once dominated the region. Intensive irrigation during the Soviet period, combined with climate change, has devastated the Aral Sea, nearly drying up what used to be the fourth largest saltwater lake in the world. Upon gaining independence, the Government of Uzbekistan inherited a severe environmental crisis.
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