orif · HackerTrans

I don’t think Aral will be coming back to its original size. Once Afghanistan starts developing it will start consuming more water from Amudarya, and Central Asia’s population is still growing. The climate change going to hit Central Asia pretty hard, the ice glaciers that feed the major rivers are receding already.

orif

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Actually, the Russian textile industry needed cotton, they were a major customer of US cotton, then they saw an opportunity to grow cotton in Turkestan. So they started growing cotton there. Even after the 1917 revolution, Turkestan remained a major cotton producer, and population growth, increasing demand for cotton, the ruthless Soviet central planning dried the lake. That YouTube clip might have a point about water leaks, but even with 100% efficiency they would dry up the lake anyway, the inertia to grow cotton was too strong.

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