Soviet Sea Drainage and Dust Control
In the 1960s, the Soviet Union diverted water from rivers feeding the Aral Sea to support cotton agriculture, causing over 90% of the lake to evaporate and forming the Aralkum Desert. This environmental disaster led to dust storms contaminated with salts and residues, prompting efforts to plant saxaul shrubs to stabilize the soil, with 1.7 million hectares currently covered.
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