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Central Asia’s Ticking Time Bomb: Water

NPR

By Valerie Kipnis,

Claire Harbage, Connie Hanzhang Jin, Daniel Wood

Published October 30, 2024 at 4:00 AM CDT

Omerserik Ibragimov heads out to put his nets in the water for fish on the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan.

The Aral Sea has nearly disappeared over the last 60 years. Now, its source rivers are depleting.

View the full project: https://apps.npr.org/aral-sea-shrinking-map/

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