The Sea That Disappeared
In 1960, the Aral Sea stretched across 26,000 square miles of Central Asia — the fourth largest lake on earth. Fishing boats crowded its harbors....
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Amos 8:1-12.
In 1960, the Aral Sea stretched across 26,000 square miles of Central Asia — the fourth largest lake on earth. Fishing boats crowded its harbors. Villages thrived along its shores. Soviet engineers looked at all that water and saw opportunity: divert the rivers feeding the Aral to irrigate cotton fields across Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. The harvests were enormous. The quotas were met.…
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