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• REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Most of the evaportaion happened post 1991. I wonder if something important happened. Oh yes, the USSR dissolved.

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  • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • sevenapples@lemmygrad.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This does not dispute his claim that most of the evaporation happened post-USSR.

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      • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  :-(

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