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The Aral Sea: Going, Going...

by Lester R. Brown on December 15, 1990
Irrigation and overpopulation are sucking the life from one of the world's largest inland bodies of water. To save the Aral, the Soviet Union must act decisively—and soon.

Published in World Watch Magazine, January/February 1991, Volume 4, No. 1