Aral Sea
- Created by: Hannah Jeffery
- Created on: 11-02-15 17:14
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- Aral Sea
- location
- far-western Asia
- located in the countries of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
- was once the world 4th largest inland sea
- irrigation
- began in 1918
- soviet union made Kazakhstan the main producer of cotton
- needs a large supply of water
- the rivers Amu Darya and Syr Darya were diverted to supply cotton fields
- starved the aral sea of water
- 2014 60% of its orginal size
- if irrigation continued some environmentalists thought it would of disappeared by 2015
- did not looking into the consequences or were more concerned about the economic benefits
- economic impacts
- loss of the fishing industry
- used to employ 40,000 people
- 90% unemployment of fishermen
- used to employ 40,000 people
- destroys agriculture
- win-blown salt from dried seabed damages crops
- reduced access to water
- salt and dust laden air causes respiratory problems
- decreases work productivity
- decrease in water cover has increased the possibility of accessing oil reserves
- influx of refugees trying to get away from the pollution
- government have to fund money for dams to increase water supply
- difficult due to the lack of income tax
- to bring back the Aral sea they need £80 million but no aid agencies will help
- loss of the fishing industry
- social impacts
- salt over load has led to 2/3 of the women being anaemic
- leading to a high still born birth rate
- high infant mortality rate
- 1 in 4 children die
- declining population
- by age 1 most babies will have a pollution related illness
- lack of protein in people diet
- suffer even more from toxic dust clouds from over use of pesticides
- sea 60 miles away from the old promenade
- drastically lowers life expectancy
- 63 in Kazakhstan and 81 in UK
- salt over load has led to 2/3 of the women being anaemic
- environmental
- wiped out of the habitat leading to the lack of food resources
- decrease biodiversity
- destroy habitat to search for oil
- aral sea is also heavily polluted largely as the result of weapons testing, industrial projects, pesticides and fertiliser runoff
- retreat of the sea has led to climate change
- summer becoming hotter and drier and winters becoming colder and longer
- wiped out of the habitat leading to the lack of food resources
- location
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