Aral Sea: Man-made environmental disaster

Aral Sea: Man-made environmental disaster - BBC News

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It took just 40 years for the Aral Sea to dry up. Fishing ports suddenly found themselves in a desert. But in one small part of the sea, water is returning. Latest satellite pictures reveal that 90% of the Aral Sea has dried up, forming a new desert between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan in Central Asia. It's a man-made environmental disaster. As part of the BBC's Richer World Season, Rustam Qobil visits the Aral Sea, a toxic desert sea bed, and talks to people who have lost their sea, health and loved ones.
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@BBCNews 9 жыл бұрын

People in Aral are hoping the sea will come back. It dried up in just 40 years, turning fishing ports into desert. But in one small area, it is returning. You can explore this immersive story told through text, images and video here www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31588720 as part of our #BBCRicherWorld series

@marykinuthia5780 9 жыл бұрын

Wow!

@VarunBhargav 9 жыл бұрын

This is what happens, when you tinker with nature. The rivers which used to feed the Aral sea were diverted for agricultural purposes. The end result, sea turning into a desert. In the distant future, humans will colonize Moon, Mars and beyond. Let's hope, they do not tinker with the local ecosystems there.

@thomasscott4424 9 жыл бұрын

Varun Bhargav What are you talking about? There are no Ecosystems on either of those to tinker with. They would be entirely man made.

@goldenbomber2929 9 жыл бұрын

I wonder if we can build a "eco-system" on Mars while we human-being Can't even sustain our global eco-system? This should not be to blame for irrigation but for global warming . i thought

@avisheksaha3897 9 жыл бұрын

What the hell human r doing.

@TomasaAnicka 4 жыл бұрын

Chruschov: *acts innocent* Also Chruschov: *destroys its largest sea* 😓

@e0o9kii 9 жыл бұрын

It's good that the Kazakh government built the dam. At least some water is coming in hence fishes are able to populate in it and the communities nearby are prospering but it'd be cool if (God willing) they could divert some water from other rivers to the main body of the Aral Sea.

@Uluhbek97 7 жыл бұрын

+LegoGuy87 what is ob river?

@Uluhbek97 7 жыл бұрын

+LegoGuy87 whick one iasa cheaper

@xerra1 8 жыл бұрын

Correction. Soviet Union (russian) made environmental disaster.

@JJamesH86 5 жыл бұрын

That's not a correction. You haven't invalidated the original title.

@filipmarek3372 5 жыл бұрын

America Is don't better

@tiffanyhill-anding8891 4 жыл бұрын

Yea

@NiteStorm324 3 жыл бұрын

It was just Stalin hes the dude that came up with the idea

@Distress. 3 жыл бұрын

@@filipmarek3372 America has a far better track record than the soviet union.

@maxkz4915 8 жыл бұрын

Өте өкінішті. Мүлдем жойылып кетпей тұрғанда қолға алу керек. Сұмдық ғой.

@itowngaming4439 4 жыл бұрын

Дұрыс

@lilli6230 3 жыл бұрын

@@itowngaming4439 pushpin kitty paw

@lisalu8477 2 жыл бұрын

Heartbreaking 😢♥️

@TomasaAnicka 3 жыл бұрын

Why do i cry when i see old footages? ;(

@knyghtryder3599 3 жыл бұрын

Because a really really beautiful thing was lost , so sorry..........

@DannyPhantom288 2 жыл бұрын

Надеюсь это море сможет стать обратно нормальным

@bungeezombie6189 3 жыл бұрын

The reason for the Aral Sea drying up is Stalin

@dana1189 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for making that video . And thanks to Pink Floyd , which also made a video clip for the song « Louder than words”, because after watching that videos people around the world can see size of catastrophe.

@islamispeaceful2850 3 жыл бұрын

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@user-zb4gt4dz8s 3 жыл бұрын

Can someone send captions of these video?

@panjasio347 7 жыл бұрын

Love this accent!

@TheKarankansal 5 жыл бұрын

Pan Jasio 🤣🤣🤣

@abidhasan4184 2 жыл бұрын

Russian accent

@AayushAwasthi12 2 жыл бұрын

is that Borat?

@in7687 7 жыл бұрын

dream on...human dried that god given sea...whats gone its never coming back.

@knyghtryder3599 3 жыл бұрын

Not just humans, but dumb asses

@aralsea9102 6 жыл бұрын

tours to the Aral Sea

@Gena_Tsidrusni 3 жыл бұрын

Where girls cry: Titanic Where boys cry: The Lion King Where mens cry:

@omarfarooq6131 5 жыл бұрын

Reconnect the rivers again

@monukleina 9 жыл бұрын

'' it was a beautiful sea ...'' the Aral Sea is actually a lake :)

@politicallycorrectredskin796 9 жыл бұрын

natalie x Technically. But the name for it was always the Aral Sea. Same as the Caspian Sea. Just like Australia isn`t really a continent even though it pretends to be.

@Sam-vy8ye 6 жыл бұрын

Technically it is an inland sea. The difference between and inland sea and a lake is that one's just bigger than the other (generally)

@hgbugalou 6 жыл бұрын

Depends how you look at it. Typically lakes have outlets to the oceans and are freshwater. Seas tend to be basins of thier own and salt water (often times much more salty than the ocean.) that said the great salt lake in Utah doesn't follow this guidance.

@SN-jp6dl Жыл бұрын

@@hgbugalou lakes don’t have outlets to oceans, those are seas. Lakes are fed by rivers and streams.

@heretoshare612 9 жыл бұрын

Is there any way to replenish this ocean?

@e0o9kii 9 жыл бұрын

Perhaps if the Kazakh government divert some of the water from other rivers to the Aral Sea, that might gradually bring back the water (might take a while but still worth it in the long run). God willing, somehow water could come back to the Aral Sea.

@hananelahreche6872 2 жыл бұрын

respects to the aral sea 🥺🥺

@AnnaFresa1 4 жыл бұрын

If they leave it alone, the water will return

@banglamarvel4649 3 жыл бұрын

No it Won't

@michelleharper5959 2 жыл бұрын

They redirected the rivers that supplied the sea. If they "leave it alone" the rivers aren't going to redivert themselves back to where they were originally and start filling the sea again. It would be good if they could set the rivers back to their original path bit I would imagine that would cause issues for the plantations that rely on them for irrigation now.

@notyourpapi 3 жыл бұрын

I just knew this because of dailybald videos

@NurSunUSAKZ 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks to journalists they arise this problem for entire World.

@raulreiman3063 2 жыл бұрын

like Richat Structure & other Africa big lakes +6000y back ?

@S23ultra98 5 жыл бұрын

У переводчика прям шикарный акцент 😏

@richard9995 3 жыл бұрын

oye zy

@TheOfficialEpicTree 9 жыл бұрын

Well why don't they just divert the rivers back to the way they where before so that the sea could gradually get back to normal. That seems like it could be in the realm of possibilitie.

@baronvonwolf1457 9 жыл бұрын

Ya, but that would mean taking water away from the farms.

@Sakurayaya 9 жыл бұрын

I don't think this can be work as the sea had dried! except the sky keep raining everyday non-stop. >

@KyoushaPumpItUp 7 жыл бұрын

+Baron Von Wolf sabotage the farms until they are fubar. no farms means rehabilitation for the lake

@sammiecanua7310 5 жыл бұрын

It would dry before it refills, its not easy to restart a massive dried desert to massive deep lake

@knyghtryder3599 3 жыл бұрын

@@KyoushaPumpItUp agree , i am thinking of moving , from chi-raq to uzbek to destroy desert farms and dig underground tunnels deep to the rivers bringing back glory!

@madanogluny 2 жыл бұрын

@aralplayzhd9426 6 жыл бұрын

My name is Aral

@bobdylan3820 6 жыл бұрын

nobody asked buddy

@ThexXxXxOLOxXxXx 2 жыл бұрын

Are you named in honor of the sea?

@thepaperrose832 9 жыл бұрын

This is your country on Communism

@alexyuu952 9 жыл бұрын

communism destroys everything, nature too ofcourse(

@alexyuu952 9 жыл бұрын

yugine1000 "in hard times people need to be under totalitarian regime" i'm not gonna to even comment this bs.

@yugine1000 9 жыл бұрын

Alex Yuuki Because you can't argue? Things happen. If you were at least aware of simple historical facts and weren't a bimbo, then you would be able to comment, argue and the like. But you are only a kind of a retranslator, getting its data from its programmers on TV and retranslating it to others. I don't want to get your hopes down, but I am not a person who is going to accept this shit and talk to you any longer.

@TheMADC999 7 жыл бұрын

Other countries aren't doing any better. We got factories polluting the air, speeding up climate change, and shit!! It's humans, not communism or capitalism

@pesuvalgendaja8391 6 жыл бұрын

Why communism capitalized?

@elisabetta4478 4 жыл бұрын

Human being is the worst invention ever😐😐

@jasearc 4 жыл бұрын

Actually, if it wasn't for human beings the earth and all plant life and all life would have died. Plants need Co2 to live and without it, life wouldn't exist.

@knyghtryder3599 3 жыл бұрын

@@jasearc incorrect there were plants for hundreds of millions of years without people, there are bacteria and other animals, humans are just the dumbest, ugliest most destructive CO2 emitters there are many to replace us

@e21big 9 жыл бұрын

... so what exactly had man made for this disaster?

@Uluhbek97 7 жыл бұрын

they used the 2 rivers to farm that used to resupply aral with water

@vigorwoods 9 жыл бұрын

It's an irreducible process

@politicallycorrectredskin796 9 жыл бұрын

12Pence You mean it`s a process that can`t be made any smaller? Or do you mean irreversible? In which case you`re wrong. Putting water into the lake would make it come back:p Logic for beginners here folks!

@lahiruashen6326 Жыл бұрын

😓😓😢😢😢😢 නැවත නිර්මානය කරන්ට බැරිද මෙය

@mattvjmeasures 9 жыл бұрын

Such a tragedy

@Alex-pc7ud 7 ай бұрын

SOVEREIGN REPUBLIK OF KARAKALPAKSTAN FOREVER ❤

@AnhTuPhucDerrickHoangCanada 2 жыл бұрын

diverting the rivers killed the sea

@jarrodyuki7081 Жыл бұрын

well.................

@sunnys4544 6 жыл бұрын

So Russia given independence bt taken away water

@Prasetyovich 2 жыл бұрын

siapa yg kesini gegara guru gembul?

@harryandruschak2843 6 жыл бұрын

"Always look on the Brightside of live!" Nobody is blaming this on global warming/climate change :)

@ThexXxXxOLOxXxXx 2 жыл бұрын

I think climate change is supposed to increase the level some how

@raeonardobak 2 жыл бұрын

Even now, the Aral Sea-Caspian Sea-Black Sea tentative name: I would like to build the Eurasia Canal so that the Aral Sea can be saved and Uzbekistan can go out to sea. A seawater connection canal with a width of 1.2km that connects the sea to all places below 0m on the earth will solve global warming and allow landlocked countries to advance into the ocean.

@nishtagram2802 9 жыл бұрын

Seems like Mars. .. May same happen there

@palacpaclouiseli860 8 жыл бұрын

Was Mars around before Earth?

@nishtagram2802 8 жыл бұрын

TigerHeart03 may be before our civilization

@palacpaclouiseli860 8 жыл бұрын

I know but. Is Mars older than Earth?

@nishtagram2802 8 жыл бұрын

TigerHeart03 nope..earth is older.. Mars=4.503 billion yr. Earth=4.543 billion yr. But who knows what happened 1 or 2 billion years ago😢😊

@palacpaclouiseli860 8 жыл бұрын

Thanks man

@damianrose1159 5 жыл бұрын

what a shame

@geokaks1 4 жыл бұрын

Man made disaster!!! Sad.

@abdurrohman1927 6 жыл бұрын

With good reason"global warming"

@dead-st7oq 3 жыл бұрын

why don't they just wait for rain?

@andyconda7574 9 жыл бұрын

NICE! IS GOOD! I LIKE YOU!

@fiveohfivethree 9 жыл бұрын

Great success!

@AviationTV 7 жыл бұрын

Oh the power of global warming. :/

@Uluhbek97 7 жыл бұрын

are you stupid

@gromilla1990 7 жыл бұрын

its not the global warming, its the stupidity of engineers who rerouted rivers for irrigation purposes thus stopping the supply of water into Aral sea

@AviationTV 7 жыл бұрын

Daniyar Mussakulov Oh, okay. Oops, I was clearly taught differently.

@Saberblaze 3 жыл бұрын

Stalin approve Now to the gulags

@thirunavukkarasuv9530 5 жыл бұрын

Man made disaster.....

@wongijen9167 2 жыл бұрын

So many communist tankies in the comments section, that face that the Soviet Union caused this disaster

@User-bb8ki 5 жыл бұрын

this accent is annoying omg

@politicallycorrectredskin796 9 жыл бұрын

You could reverse this in a few years really. The problem is that the lake (ex-lake) is divided between two states and that you have three more countries in the drainage area who want to use the water. If Kazakhstan frees up the water in the Syr and Uzbekistan frees up the water from the Amu then the lake will fill up again at the same rate it shrank, if not faster. All you`d need is to figure out how much water will balance the lake and then release slightly more than that and the lake will fill up very slowly. And then you could still grow cotton and stuff. The last thing we need is some sort of a global water Gestapo under UN control. It`s much better if Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan at least can cooperate on this issue, which so far hasn`t happened. Modernizing Uzbekistan`s irrigation system can`t cost that much though can it? People hyperventilating about this have to realize though that the Aral is a salt lake and they often disappear periodically, with or without human interference. Apparently the Aral was gone 600 years ago as well so this stuff comes and goes. I guess the difference is that 600 years ago people living there would have just moved along and bought a cow or something, rather than stand on the beach crying for the rest of their lives.

@knyghtryder3599 3 жыл бұрын

God you are an idiot, this is not natural, this is ONLY for human dumb asses to grow cotton a non food product in the desert 600 years ago the water level receded just like all lakes the level goes up and down.... so lets drain lake baikal to grow opium,,,,,, lets drain the great lakes for perfume,,,,,,, lets drain the pacific ocean to make plastic toys . Question is there a limit to human insanity and retardation??

@politicallycorrectredskin796 3 жыл бұрын

@@knyghtryder3599 Nice. insults from a random moron. Well, that's me convinced!

@knyghtryder3599 3 жыл бұрын

@@politicallycorrectredskin796 Exactly you can't argue with stupid, my comments were more for all the young hopeful students to see a ray of hope on the internet that even though 99+% are totally brain dead morons there are a few who can see the world scientifically and care ❤ Please save the Aral sea please protect the Earth's natural biological processes for which humanity is COMPLETELY dependent. We don't have much time left 200-300 million years before plate tectonics stops and all complex life ends ..... lets make it count and save what we have and stop destroying everything for greed and retardation

@knyghtryder3599 3 жыл бұрын

@@politicallycorrectredskin796 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zrdxi9CZ18m0gnk.html

@politicallycorrectredskin796 3 жыл бұрын

@@knyghtryder3599 Never heard such bullshit in my life.