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1. International Water Case Study: The Aral Sea - Harvard University

   Why did the Aral Sea disappear? 1. Increases in irrigation agriculture throughout the 20th century used up all of the water before it could reach the sea 2. Farmers grew crops that required lots of water cotton monoculture 3. Excessive use of agricultural pesticides polluted the environment

2. Case Study: The Aral Sea - Mr. Tredinnick's Class Site

   •Land in Aral sea area has become unusable –Combination of lack of water and Salinity •Loss of top soil leading to inability to grow plant –Loose topsoil blown away to create huge dust storms

3. CASE STUDY 4: THE ARAL SEA BASIN - University of Texas at Austin

   While numerous statements have been issued by the riparian countries, the river basin lacks a robust and comprehensive treaty. This case study will focus, therefore, on the factors and processes militating against full cooperation in the basin. FEATURES OF THE BASIN. The Aral Sea extends over 690,000km2(Kirmani and LeMoigne, 1997).

4. Case Study of the Aral Sea Water and Environmental Management ...

   This review discusses the dire conditions of the Aral Sea which has seen its surface area declined by two-thirds since 1960. The Aral Sea Water and Environmental .

5. Case Study of Transboundary Dispute Resolution: Aral Sea

   The Aral Sea was, until comparatively recently, the fourth largest inland body of water in the world. Its basin covers 1.8 million km 2 , primarily in the independent republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,

6. The Aral Sea: An Ecological Disaster - Cornell University

   The Aral Sea: An Ecological Disaster By: I. Rudenko and J. P. A. Lamers CASE STUDY #8-6 OF THE PROGRAM: "FOOD POLICY FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN THE GLOBAL FOOD SYSTEM" 2010 Edited by: Per Pinstrup-Andersen ([email protected]) Cornell University In collaboration with: Soren E. Frandsen, FOI, University of ...

7. Aral Sea Basin Case study: Water and Environment - ESCAP

   Maintain existing the fragile ecological balance in the Aral sea region, and combat desertification, aiming improvement of the water management system, economical and rational use of water resources;

8. (PDF) The demise of the Aral Sea - An environmental disaster

   This study investigated the relationship between land cover change in the Aral Sea related basins and the Aral Sea crisis from 2000 to 2020 by employing the GlobeLand30 dataset with 30 m...

9. Did the Desire for Cotton Self-Sufficiency Lead to the Aral ...

   Did the Desire for Cotton Self-Sufficiency Lead to the Aral Sea Environmental Disaster? A Case Study on Trade and the Environment. The desiccation of the Aral Sea was one of the greatest environmental disasters of the latter part of the 20th century. In 1960, it was the fourth largest lake in the world.

10. Aral Sea and the Aral Region - UNESCO

    We achieved significant progress in stabilization of the Northern Aral Sea and the Syr Darya delta thanks to the “Regulation of the Syr Darya River and Maintenance of the Northern Aral Sea” Project4.