Resumen de Reclaiming the Aral Sea.

Philip Micklin, Nikolay V. Aladin

• This article describes the demise and attempted restoration of the Aral Sea in Central Asia. Once Earth's fourth-largest lake in 1960, by 2007 the lake was 10% its original size. Using the Amu and Syr rivers for irrigation reduced the Aral's source water. The sea has become three residual lakes, two of which have salinity rates too high for fish. Surrounding towns and populations have suffered. A dam built in 2005 transformed the northern lake, but the two other lakes could become dead seas.