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In normal conditions, the Aral Sea gets approximately one fifth of its water supply through rainfall, while the rest is delivered to it by the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers.
Not only was all this water being diverted into canals at the expense of the Aral Sea supply, but the majority of it was being soaked up by the desert and blatantly wasted (between 25% and 75% of it, depending on the time period).
The Soviet government decided in the 1960s to divert those rivers so that they could irrigate the desert region surrounding the Sea rather than supply the Aral Sea basin
The primary effect of the Aral Sea has been the significant loss of water in the sea. The water level has dropped approximately 23 meters since its primary sources of water being diverted
Between 1950 and 1988, the population of the Aral Sea basin grew dramatically.
The Aral Sea is situated in Central Asia, between the Southern part of Kazakhstan and Northern Uzbekistan. Up until the third quarter of the 20th century it was the worlds fourth largest saline lake, and contained 10grams of salt per liter.