• 342345@feddit.de
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    8 months ago

    Indeed. It’s gone since 2018. It took men 70 years to drain it. There is a time lapse of It’s last 18 years: Poof.

    Now I’m sad.

  • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Apparently Kazakhstan is trying to do something to refill it in but there’s actually some disputes about it because of how the repurposed water is being used elsewhere?

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      8 months ago

      because of how the repurposed water is being used elsewhere?

      The whole reason it dried up is that the rivers that fed it got diverted for irrigation.

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    8 months ago

    It’s a big spot on Google earth that is pretty visible even zoomed all of the way out, I found out about this while zooming around on it one day and noticing an oddly colored spot.