The Aral Sea is slowly disappearing

According to NASA, 'for the first time in modern history, the eastern basin of the Aral Sea has completely evaporated'.

Photos from the Aral Sea satellite posted on NASA's Twitter page on September 26 - (Photo: NASA Earth)

Humans have used water in the Aral Sea for centuries of agriculture, but unfortunately the huge lake formed 5.5 million years ago in Central Asia is disappearing at a speed of great concern. in our time.

Slate quoted expert Philip Micklin of Western Michigan University (USA) as saying that this is the first time in history that the eastern region of the Aral Sea has completely dried up within 600 years.

Things began to change since 1960, when a Soviet-initiated agricultural program changed the flow of the two rivers supplying water to the lake area, Amu Darya and Syr Darya.

When the Soviet Union disintegrated, the situation was getting worse, and experts predicted that the Aral Sea would completely disappear by 2020.