Aral Sea Before and After To Set Up Your Mind

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Aral Sea before and after can build up your knowledge, especially about the condition of the earth. From the satellite, you can see the images that show the rapid destruction of one of the world's largest lakes - now just a shadow of its former beauty. The Aral Sea, once the size of Ireland, has been reduced to pollute ponds a tenth its original size. These snaps document the lake's devastation in less than 40 years. The first, taken in 1973, shows the Aral - straddling Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan in central Asia - only years after Soviet irrigation projects diverted the rivers feeding it. The 2009 snap shows the lake has all but dried up.

By UN chief Ban Ki-Moon it is called as "one of the worst environmental disasters". University of Reading expert Dr Ben Lloyd-Hughes stated, "It's the effect of man and rising temperatures." As you know, fifty years ago the water disappeared from the shores of the Aral Sea, leaving behind it an ecological and economic wasteland plagued by toxic dust storms.

The region's once prosperous fishing industry has been virtually destroyed, bringing unemployment and economic hardship. As the Aral Sea region is also heavily polluted, it comes with consequent of serious public health problems. The retreat of the sea has reportedly also caused local climate change, with summers becoming hotter and drier, and winters colder and longer.

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Kazakhstan tries to save and replenish the North Aral Sea with their ongoing effort. As part of this effort, a dam project was completed in 2005; in 2008, the water level in this lake had risen by 12 meters (39 ft) from its lowest level in 2003. Salinity has dropped, and fish are again found in sufficient numbers for some fishing to be viable. However, the outlook for the remnants of the South Aral Sea remains bleak.

The high-level guests exchanged views on the progress made in strengthening institutions and legal frameworks for water resources management in Central Asia and took part in the preparation of the Aral Sea Basin Programme-3 (ASBP-3) to assist countries of the Aral Sea Basin. They also familiarized themselves with the concept of trans-boundary water dispute resolution methods taking into account the specifics of the Central Asian region.

The overall decline of the Aral Sea is approximately 60% according to National Geographic's report based on NASA's Arial pictures. The human population is suffering greatly due to the lack of water and vanished fish and dependent plants and animals. The contribution to the decline of the Aral Sea before and after is largely due to human activity and at a much smaller scale, global warming.

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