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Due to Aral Sea area reduction and a volume decrease of one-sixth in just 40 years, we have become eyewitnesses to a real ecological crisis, which has impacted upon millions of people living in this region and beyond. The Aral Sea basin has ceased to be an enormous natural conditioner that kept back cold airflow from the north and cooled air from south. Over the last years, the desertification process has covered more than 4 million hectares of land, whilst landscapes adjacent to the Amudarya and Syrdarya River deltas have been strongly impacted.
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Kamalov, T. (2007). THE FUTURE OF THE PRIARALIE. In: Wouters, P., Dukhovny, V., Allan, A. (eds) Implementing Integrated Water Resources Management in Central Asia. NATO Science Series, vol 77. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5732-8_6
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