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The Aral Sea used to be the 4th largest lake in the world and supported a thriving fishing industry. In the 1950s, the Soviet Union diverted water from the rivers flowing into the Aral Sea for irrigation projects in Central Asia. This caused the Aral Sea to rapidly shrink, destroying the fishing industry and surrounding environment. By the early 2000s, the Aral Sea had almost completely disappeared. Kazakhstan built a dam to separate the northern section, which has started to recover, but the southern secti

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