• u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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    1411 months ago

    the Aral Sea began shrinking in the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet irrigation projects

      • @OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
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        1111 months ago

        But it disputes the implication that the dissolution of the USSR was the cause of the problem.

        • @sevenapples@lemmygrad.ml
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          -511 months ago

          That implication wasn’t made. The original comment mentions how it took men 70 years to drain it (meaning that the drainage started during the USSR), and the comment below does not challenge that fact.